Thats like showing your son a photograph and saying that Monet ought not to have painted. There is more to art than the final product. If AI is popular now its more among people that want to cash in on it, even if just an ego boost they are getting from likes on instagram and facebook. Not sure how this would be monetized…
@OccultMonk I agree largely with what your saying on the blog although there are few things I don't. Lets not kid ourselves here and pretend like we had a paradise before AI came out. Go to social media websites, Artstation, Youtube, DeviantArt especially, etc. Can you honestly say those places weren't already flooded with…
But a watermark will make the images useless. And so it is a de facto ban for users and the art created with it. For what reason? Deep fake like in China? The main concern here so far was that "these basterds uses my data", which they don't. Not a single grain of copyright is touched. They use it for training by simply…
I hope you're absolutely right with these words. I'm feeling a lot of anxiety these days. Like many other artists, I've put all my eggs in the basket of 3D art for audiovisual productions of any kind. If this way of making a living is compromised, I don't know if I'll be able to adapt to another field. A universal basic…
I must say I am genuinely fascinated by the fact that some don't seem to see the issue of "just using it for inspiration" (or moodboards). I mean, HELLO ? Not only is it a slippery slope as mentionned above, but it is also *litterally pointless*. The point of a moodboard is not just to gather pretty shiny pictures to show…
@Tiles all the law is threat of violence, and almost exclusively it is used to protect the owning class, not the working class. So if you counter a threat of violence by pointing to the law you are just offloading your violence to somebody else. Doesn't put you above anything like you are not an angry chimp like all the…
I This has already been highlighted by both Pior and Neox, but just because something is legal now does not mean that makes it right, nor that it will be legal forever. Laws change and update all the time together with new inventions and with society. There will most likely be many things regarding AI that we need to iron…
The tech is here, nobody will take it away. But there are a few things that need to be fixed. The first and foremost would be making sure how its sourcing its inputs. Using an open source library that was made to study, in a commercial sense will have to stop or there will have to be systems in place to compensate. I feel…
@Tiles But we've already shown examples of pixel-per-pixel (more or less) copies of prominent images, in one of the other AI threads. Yes, you can make content that looks similar. The more famous an image is, the closer AI will come to it. But it is not pixel by pixel. And you can do similar images with Photoshop or Krita…
I would argue illustrators may have it the worst out of all those who want to be independent artists and specifically those who do digital illustration. Thats an area the AI can easily replicate and to be fair....there already wasn't much of any monetary value in it anyhow even before the AI came along. Those who did…