id rather see the original comic WITH AUTHOR ATTRIBUTION INTACT.

For context, what OP means by "cleaning" webcomics is removing artist attribution. Look through their post history. And the answer why people don't do this is clear: because it's an unbelievably shitty thing to do.

If you mean as the artist, just work in high resolution in the first place.

If you mean using AI upscaling on someone else's webcomic that's already been shared several times and lost quality along the way before reposting, that's because it can cause aberrations and sometimes looks uglier than a low quality webcomic. Better to reverse-search it with tineye to find the original, which should be in good quality.

Recreating an artists work with AI slop and posting it without attribution is not "upscaling".

Because having AI hallucinate changes more than the resolution...

If you want to slop everything up before you post it...

Most people are going to downvote for too many various valid reasons to list out.

There's a few militantly pro-AI instances, and they'll van anyone that down votes you for any reason.

I suggest you go there, because they're the most blocked places on the fediverse.

You can post slop to your heart's content, and the few people who see it won't have any problems with it

You get your safe place, no one else gets slop shoved down their throats.

Everyone wins.

Because then shitheads would use it as an excuse to remove the author's credit in the comic

When an artist signs their work, they are proud of their work. You’re editing out their name, removing their credit after all they did. Your reposting it shows you like their work, but you remove their credit. Fuck you beep. It’s so fucking disrespectful to edit out credit!!!!!! Look how many down votes you have!!!!!

Why isn't leaving attribution on webcomics a standard practice?

Go beep yourself.

Because the rest of us respect people who create things.

Oh no, Beep just beeped it's last beep!