The war against AI is here

[Legend]

Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation | Ars Technica

Kickstarter is also removing projects with AI art.

It's pretty disappointing that these two groups are waging war instead of finding common ground. AI art generation is an incredibly powerful tool that empowers artists. It's only the artistic theft itself that is the problem.

[kitler53]

AI art is inheritly theft because it only knows what it was trained on.   maybe the AI should be required to pay to use the art as an input to their algorithms.

...based on the Mickey mouse generation it's 100% clear they used copyrighted material as input. 

[nnodley]

Yeah I feel like both sides aren't working together at all.  AI art is really awesome for inspiration and just getting a quick feel for style and shouldn't be used for making money right now

There's a solution somewhere just need someone to work on doing it and figuring it out

[Legend]

AI art is inheritly theft because it only knows what it was trained on.   maybe the AI should be required to pay to use the art as an input to their algorithms.

...based on the Mickey mouse generation it's 100% clear they used copyrighted material as input.

Training on copyrighted material should be allowed, but end users need to be responsible for what they produce. Not too different from a human artist imo that can legally draw inspiration from copyrighted material, but can't directly copy copyrighted material.

Yeah I feel like both sides aren't working together at all.  AI art is really awesome for inspiration and just getting a quick feel for style and shouldn't be used for making money right now

There's a solution somewhere just need someone to work on doing it and figuring it out

I think like all tools, it really depends on how it's used. For example in Hapax I needed to change the background of a render so to save time I just drew a really basic background in gimp and then let an AI redo the style/quality of the background to match the foreground.

For inspiration I'm pretty 50 50. I've definitely been using it for rapid prototyping but more often than not I use it to check how generic my ideas are. I love seeing how it corrupts/tries to "fix" an image. For example it thinks the alien ships from Arrival need a lot more greebling.