#Machine generated art

[vergess]

Hanging out around other people interested in AI has only made me more and more conservative on the subject as I realize how few people have any interest in producing artworks ethically while using statistical generation as a tool.

Like 85% of the use cases I see are just people making niche memes for themselves. They wouldn't have hired an artist for it anyway.

But then the other 14% is like. One guy personally eliminating all concept art positions from multiple game studios in a week. Putting dozens of lifetime professional artists out of work in an instant for a dramatically inferior product made of stolen works. That kind of shit.

And I don't think the 1% of people making public domain based models on 120 year old pulp media magazine ad art are keeping up. Like. I just don't think we are.

[eshasunrise]

AI art is Forgery and Plagiarism

TL;DR, without a curated list of consenting creators for input data, (or watermarks denoting non-distribution), AI art will be harmful to artists.

AI art, or more accurately, Machine-Generated Art, is made using input data, which is then mimicked translated into datapoints with referential values, and then uses those values to generate an output.

The imput data will always be replicated to some degree. This can be mitigated with a large enough sample size, but never eliminated, and any form of tagging system (the datapoints) will allow for near exact replication of an artstyle, if not a replica of the artwork itself.

The difference between a machine generated art and an homage is specifically the purpose of the art. Individual homages, parodies, and art style replication is more often than not used to develop specific ideas and concepts. Machine learning models don't learn about language flow, anatomical exaggeration, or fretting; they learn about what weighted values are associated with specific tags, and translates those values to your UI. This is why a given machine can straight up copy the style of an artist or brand, and that in itself is troublesome for the same reasons as an individual distributing art copied from another artist is.

Without the means of properly learning technique or understanding the concept behind aspects of a piece, a machine cannot make reasonable parody or homage, even with explicit instruction to do so. This leaves only forgery, plagiarism, or theft. If an art piece is meant to be explicitly similar to another artist's body of work, and profit is made through its use, it is forgery. If a piece is similar beyond coincidence (beyond technique, which cannot be machine-replicated) to a specific piece, it is plagiarism. If a piece is nearly exactly the same as an existing piece that is not publicly available, and a profit is made off of it, it is theft.

There are ways to make Generated art work. First, and most practical for current algorithms, is to slap a giant watermark saying "MACHINE GENERATED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION" on every single generated piece. This is easy, as the pieces are machine generated. The second is to only use input data collected from consenting creators, from a curated set. The third is to create your own work of art initially, and only train on that, or works specifically in the public domain (not just readily accessible through libraries or internet) which is what most people demonstrating what Machine Learning is do.

Unfortunately, this doesn't address the largest issue with Generated Art, and that is the corporate aspect. Corporations like Disney, Adobe, Penguin Random House, and Shutterstock could take their existing IPs, and abuse their complete ownership of them to copy or steal the styles, creations, and even likenesses of the people working under them, and automatically generate content directly infringing on their work without consequence due to the exact wording of Intellectual Property laws. Only the recent bills to prevent this exact scenario have stood against this.

Ultimately, using AI art for personal use or memes generally isn't a big deal. But if you are using it to purposefully avoid paying someone you can pay, make a profit on other peoples' existing IP, or worse, portray real people in a negative light through the use of deepfakes or forged works, you have moved into unethical and frequently unlawful territory.

[shygals-slophouse]

verdant garden

[thepatchycat]

*GUNDAMs your clones*

[rowdy317]

Growing Muscle-Thanks to @stompskin for making these amazing men to morph with...

[darkriallet]

🔥🔥🔥

[assassin-artist]

yea im cringe free enough to make invincible ocs. in fact i am cringe free enough to make my invincible oc directly related to the main character idc

[t00thpasteface]

absolutely sick and twisted to see a community get recommended to me for queer people to "express themselves" with ai. politicians all across the globe coordinate plots to eradicate our communities and yall want to outsource your own creative thinking to luxury software products? what the hell is wrong with you?

[incognitopolls]

For the purposes of this poll, research is defined as reading multiple non-opinion articles from different credible sources, a class on the matter, etc.– do not include reading social media or pure opinion pieces.

Fun topics to research:

Can AI images be copyrighted in your country? If yes, what criteria does it need to meet?

Which companies are using AI in your country? In what kinds of projects? How big are the companies?

What is considered fair use of copyrighted images in your country? What is considered a transformative work? (Important for fandom blogs!)

What legislation is being proposed to ‘combat AI’ in your country? Who does it benefit? How does it affect non-AI art, if at all?

How much data do generators store? Divide by the number of images in the data set. How much information is each image, proportionally? How many pixels is that?

What ways are there to remove yourself from AI datasets if you want to opt out? Which of these are effective (ie, are there workarounds in AI communities to circumvent dataset poisoning, are the test sample sizes realistic, which generators allow opting out or respect the no-ai tag, etc)

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[krumpkin]

This is my friends AI image, I'd love one of these 😁

[freedom-of-fanfic]

‘Generative AI can’t make real art!’ I agree

But for commercial purposes, most people/companies aren’t looking for ‘real art.’ They’re looking for ‘content’ they can purchase at the lowest possible price point.

If they can get the Stolen Art Remix Machine to create that content, well. You can see where this is going

[grape-souffle]

I really do want to work more on this au like making more animations and comics etc, I just need to get better at both lol

[felixringtailtravels]

[the-key-of-destiny]

World Machine Custom Design

Peam Design By @fruttymoment

I Should Practice Other Games Pixel Art More Often

[undead-vamp]

I hate ai I hate ai I hate ai die die die die stop existing rn