Well to be fair, artists hired in game/entertainment production jobs are likely not going to lose their jobs to this imho, simply because ADs are clever enough to know that the job of an artist in house or freelance isn't just to create "pretty pictures". Unfortunately, similarly to how Kotaku readers and urinalists have…
Usually, they just make the same games those first programmers made 25 years ago with tweaks around the edges. If you're shooting for novelty, there's really no escaping the fundamentals. Every game programmer today starts with GameMaker or the Unity asset store, but you don't get to join the Unreal Engine core team…
You nailed it. I will not throw common sense and facts overboard just because some hateraging luddies wants me to. When they want to hate me for my view at the matter, shall they. The discussion is over anyways. We have gone in more than one full circle now. I have nothing more to say to the matter here. Tough one.…
The "cat is out of the bag" position is IMHO a rather short-sighted and somewhat unimaginative admission of defeat in regards to the way current models are using data from non-public domain images, without obtaining any license from the artists who got scraped. One could very well imagine a situation where providers of…
"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,…
@Tiles : I would say that you explaining your actual intent with your use of this tech is far more conductive to discussion than any earlier Photoshop analogy or attempts at anthropomorphizing (right word ?) the tech. So, this tech using/relying on millions of images without consent (regardless of this practice being…
These are obviously AI-generated renders, probably prompted as "digital sculpt, realistic, trending on Artstation, in the style of xxxx". And since the AI model is using copyrighted images, this is basically infringing on thousands ... You claim again that there is a copyright breach. But where is it? To create images in…
Hey everyone! I've had a lot of thoughts about AI lately and hopefully I can chip in a bit here to help people transition a bit. I'm not advocating for AI or saying that it's good or bad... but we have to accept that the genie is out of the bottle and it's not going back in. I've been working in gamex/vfx for over 12 years…
People who had been winning by merit of their own hard won skills now become the losers Why? What does these people stop to use AI too? And to repeat it again, it's not that you can let your cleaning woman do the job now. It's the opposite, you need even more knowledge about art than before. You cannot simply start to…
The laion dataset usage copyright is for research and learning. It wasn't supposed to be used to train AI for commercial purposes since that infringes on individual copyrights. The thing is when the lawsuits start this is likely the angle it will take and if it holds up it will require stability AI, Midjourney and Dall-E…