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"if they are using materials from living artists, those living artists should be compensated automatically with every "generated" material no matter how small of a % if a lot of people using their thieving scripts then that % adds up"

Hell no. Accepting such a deal would mean accepting the theft in the first place. That's exactly what these companies want.

Well, considering that the example promts consists of things like this …

… it seems pretty clear to me that this is using the same kind of artist-fucking, image-stealing, compensation-dodging tech that powers all other AI image generators.

Make of that what you will.

"That's my two cents anyway. Hope it helps weight the fear/bias towards a more nuanced look at AI from artists. For anyone feeling worry/anxiety about the industry... learn the fundamentals and wait for the platforms/tools to shift. It's going to be okay. Your future is probably fine"

I don't think that's the case at all, unfortunately - especially now that 2D image generation has been the canari in the coalmine.

These "AI art tools" were developped by infringing on the copyright (and overall rights to images) of thousands of artists/photographers/social media users ; are being used for profit ; are destroying the spaces where the user/grifters/AIbros are accepted (byebye Artstation) ; and overall they are polluting a field that never asked for it. It's a solution to something that was never a problem. I genuinely don't think that things are going to be fine when the roots are so rotten and the consequences are already affecting the mental health of many.

As predicted, AI-driven sculpt generation from prompt is already here. It wont take much for it to be able to generate voxel-type models indistinguishable from highres sculps made by talented artists/craftsmen. There's no way that this will not negatively affect the field, first by polluting the amateur side of it and quickly spreading to the studios obsessed with "content" as opposed to narrative and craftmanship.

Even the crude example below is already an issue. That's a whole step of the process (blockout with polypaint) removed altogether. A shame really, as that means that the only thing left for the human artist after that is ... remeshing, retopo, baking and UVs. That is to say all the things that 3d artists wished AI could take care of.


In the grand scheme of things the problem I have with all of this is the way it will only make people less willing to share their art because it will be instantly fed into ML models by morons who never had any interest in the field up until 5 mins ago. It's the beginning of an incredibly toxic era really, and I don't think it will be easy to mentally block, at all.