Adobes Firefly was touted as a safe and ethical alternative to competitors like Midjourney… but it also quietly trained Firefly on Midjourney images..https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/adobe-s-ai-firefly-used-ai-generated-images-from-rivals-for-training
Mind you, Corridor Digital also trained the generator on stolen frames from a Vampire Hunter D movie, and their response to the backlash was to passive-aggressively 'like' posts defending image generators on Twitter instead of engaging in any sort of dialogue. And then they made a tongue-in-cheek follow-up where they used…
Why did you take the video down? I'm sorry you feel attacked here, that is not my intent. I do think ethics are one of the main issues with the diffusion image generators, so yes, people will call others out on a perceived lack of ethics. And when someone is accused of ethical lapses, they should feel free to refute it, as…
This thread has really helped me better frame my thoughts around AI generated art. The biggest surprise for me is how it's happening faster than I had expected and the most valuable part of the tool (the image dataset) is the least expensive (monetarily). While it's super awesome seeing such advancements technologically…
Here's some good news for once, I think - From the article: On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office declared that images created using the AI-powered Midjourney image generator for the comic book Zarya of the Dawn should not have been granted copyright protection, and the images' copyright protection will be revoked. "(...)…
Ha. The general counsel for Midjourney trying to claim it's a victory, when it's very clearly not what was written... Copyright Office: ""The fact that Midjourney's specific output cannot be predicted by users makes Midjourney different for copyright purposes than other tools used by artists." Midjourney's counsel:…
Tiles, so I don't hate AI. However I still haven't found any use for AI in developing a game, and I've looked hard. As a game dev I maintain my stance that it's not very useful outside of storyboarding, one-off pieces (not particularly useful in games) and sometimes generating alpha maps for use in Zbrush. For instance…
There is no "tech" in this. Using ai generated art is same as downloading shit from clipart stock websites. It's basically "i'm not an artist so i request it instead". So, yeah. That hurts our souls :(
Proko makes this interesting point at around 12 minutes - "Ai art is just a very small piece of research that comes under the umbrella of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and all the small companies making AI art picked up on this tiny piece of tech almost by an accidental open source side effect of the tools being…