I saw this job offer on linkedin this morning. Have companies really been doing this with krita specifically? ( training Ai on krita users ). It feels kinda scary
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Hello @Sara_tc and welcome back 
The link you provided above is a personal sign-in link and gives a partial version of your email address as well as requiring your personal password. It’s probably not a good idea to have that information on public display (or just a click away) so I suggest that you remove it.
This probably happened because you were logged in when you made the link. I think I’m right in saying that you need to be logged in to see LinkedIn content nowadays.
If you want to provide the information then you can make a screenshot or a text copy/paste into a reply here. However, that may technically be a breach of the website copyright conditions so check that and be careful 
Having said that, there may be a public interest justification as well as a local community interest justification for this forum.
The internet has a massive number of images created by many thousands of artists using many different applications. So it’s sadly the case that if you don’t want the AI content scrapers/thieves to use an image you created then it’s best not to upload it to a website that can be seen by the public 
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Thanks for the info! I replaced the link with two screenshots instead! I thought I was sharing the link to the offer only, oups…
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Thank you for that. I think the situation is worse than you first suspected.
They want a ‘professional level’ and experienced artist, who is also capable of documenting workflow and other technical aspects, to train an AI system in how to use krita to generate artwork to requirements.
I think they chose krita because it’s free, very capable and it doesn’t have any licensing conditions that limit how it may be used or by who or by what it may be used.
Personally, I think that US$65 an hour is cheap for a capable experienced artist and technical document writer who is being used to train an AI system in methods and techniques required to use krita to replace human artists. We’re living at the start of sad times
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The offer you posted is an automated AI generated offer that goes around for a while now, it is not Krita specific from what I know, an AI generated this offer for pretty much any art program. It’s a scam. It’s pretty obvious since none of the skills in that offer are exclusively Krita related (or even art)
And companies train AI on everything (no matter if Krita or not) because they have no morals or sense for ethics.
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That’s kinda what I thought it was… man I hope those kind of things stop at some point somehow… it’s so sad
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seeing stuff like this makes me literally feel sick
like almost physically ill
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Totally agree
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To think that after robbing you blind they still want you to work for them.. And teach the bot to replace the human better. Whoever they get this step will probably not work.
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Yeah… I don’t even post art anywhere anymore mostly because of all of this. Nowhere really feel safe anymore 
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there was a dude that made a plugin to do just this job application now that I think of it. they even posted on the forum. it would take screenshots as you went along drawing and stream to a really broken website.
But I wont stop posting myself they already stole all the art they could steal and no new ideas will be stolen more. how these people are not arrested for web crawling is amazing though. I guess we have to wait for the AI bubble to burst for justice to happen.
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