Our Story
Gabby Nistico
Founder
Voiceover actress & owner of Three Moon Media LLC - our parent company. She began this journey to protect her fellow actors and artists everywhere.
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Jeroen Leeuw
Partner
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Sheryl Bates
Partner
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Our Team
Art Not Ai was founded by Three Moon Media in Charlotte, NC.
Our background is in the arts and advertising and we fear that AI may grow to decimate both industries if we don't take action now.
We believe AI has a place in this world. Its automation power and data solutions are endless and can make our lives easier in many day-to-day business applications. However, we are staunchly anti-AI when it replaces creative job opportunities and negatively affects an artist's ability to pursue a career or to prosper from their art.
We are calling on socially conscious, ethically aware companies to join us in our mission to ensure that the arts remain a human endeavor and that artists can continue to make a living with their respective art. In a short time, Ai has already greatly impacted thousands of artists. We aim to protect, respect, and commit to the future of artists and their crafts. We hope you will join us in raising awareness and helping the arts community.
Born of Necessity
AI has taken the world by storm and by surprise. The frequent gaffes are startling, and the uncanny accuracy can be alarming. But what happens when AI puts your industry, or your chosen career path, on trial? What happens when you are forced to explain the worth of your job, skill, or trade? This is the dilemma the artistic community now faces, as AI threatens artistic endeavors.
Historically, technological improvements have eradicated certain jobs for humans; subsequently, tech has created new jobs for us too. This is the way of innovation. In the 15th Century, the printing press made it possible to copy text, drawings, and pictures, putting art and words into the hands of common people. Much the same, in the 1800’s many portrait painters were replaced by photographers. In both instances, the art form was previously only available to the ultra-elite. Photography made the preservation of images and events accessible to us all, and the printing press allowed everyone to hang beautiful works of art in their homes.
But now, AI threatens to reinvent the very definition of what it means to make art. Graphic designers, Voice actors, photographers, and other artists who have trained tirelessly, and honed their skills should not have to justify their creativity or the value of their service to make a living.
The skills of countless, talented individuals are being minimized by so-called AI advancements. Instead of protecting or helping the arts, AI seems to be set on a path of destruction. To be human is to create. To create is to make art. And no artist should feel that they are being replaced by a machine.
Our goal is awareness because we believe that businesses and corporations, large and small, should be honoring the work of artists, not seeking to replace them. AI has an important place in the future of business, but we cannot allow AI to negate the value of artists.
We live in a time when all businesses, must beg and plead for positive ratings and 5-star Google reviews to thrive. But artists have never existed in the same space as other, more traditional businesses. We go to a gallery, not a picture store. We visit museums, not Antiquities & Arifacts LLC. Artists work in studios, not ‘the office’.
We do not want this era to be known as the Creative Coffin or Anti-Renaissance. Artists think differently. They act differently. These eccentric, philosophical, optimistic, introverted, imaginative, creative In.di.vid.u.als. remind us what it means to be human. To be alive.
Artists should not feel as though they await a judgment as to their worthiness of making a living with their talent. Yet AI can now be compared to the Egyptian God Anubis, weighing hearts and determining if the artist’s identity will cease to exist.
Join me on this very important fight. Donate. Pledge. Stand with the arts. Please. Don’t let artists suffer the fate of AI.
no machine can do the work of an artist's hands
Let's See A Machine Do That
Hands. They make us human. An artist's hands are instantly recognizable. They are usually rough and worn with bits of their medium still stubbornly remaining in cracks and under fingernails, even after being washed. We use our hands to invent, create, build, speak, nurture, console, and live life the way we choose. Human hands are an asset. It is no wonder we offer our hand as a sign of greeting and friendship. Or that we shake hands to signify an agreement. Because when we offer someone our literal hands, we are offering something of immense human value. And no one understands this better than those who use their hands to create art. Any art. When an artist masters a craft they are training and honing their hands to do something akin to giving birth, as hands equal life. Humans have long been 'giving a helping hand' when someone is in need. Join us in helping to prevent Ai from replacing the talented hands of artists everywhere.