#ai art cutout

[shironezuninja]

Loved learning a new collage making technique on Picsart.

[carbon8tion]

Kidou Yuuto's HD in-game artwork, taken from a poster, AI upscaled, then manually cleaned. It still needs alot of work to fix the coloring mistakes the AI upscaler caused and color correcting, but it's something!

Original from the GO website for comparison

[erolupin]

[st5lker]

like i wont lie and say i havent come up with some fun and unique character design ideas bc of unintentional mistakes/quirks an ai has made (usually irt hair) or that i havent used ai art ive generated as references because its otherwise impossible to find the anatomy for a very specific pose you need but at the same time i very rarely post or share it except to my friends to show some character concepts, and every time i see some ai generated art as the thumbnail for something and know it was just bc the person making it knew Good Art = More Clicks and didnt want to actually pay or credit a real artist for it i want to throw myself off the empire state

[neural-gallery]

[gardenpansy]

as a black artist it will always be disappointing to see black art end up being AI art. it will always be frustrating to see representation like this. i used to get so excited seeing the different ways some of my favorite contemporary artists will render black life and the different ranges of black people's bodies and hair and faces and all.

i remember scrolling instagram a couple months ago, and seeing an artist, who creates collage through pop culture cutouts and repetition, post this "drawing" of a black woman amongst nature. very much in the style that i love(d) painting, with flowers surrounding. it gave me Minnie Riperton vibes. and then seeing "created with AI" in the caption.

i have never been one to say traditional media is "better" than digital, especially when i regularly shifted between the two when i was a teenager and early in my adulthood. but with AI, there is no "you, the artist" in it. and there is not a single care for any of the artworks (be they from black (or non black) painters and photographers, etc) that went into creating these images. every artist is influenced by one another, but all that comes from US watching and actually looking and understanding (or even misunderstanding) and absorbing art and concepts and themes and blah blah.

but back to my point, i wish this had never happened. i genuinely have always hoped for non-black artists to learn to actually look at black people and understand our differences and learn to put that to paper (praise to the patient people making tutorials! praise to the people making brushes for hair, even). but ugh.. what does a computer even understand about it?

[lichfucker]

[image description expanded from alt text: two digital drawings of Moment's Pallor from the shoulders up, glancing to the left with a neutral expression. Moment's Pallor (she/zie) is a thin southeast Asian woman with brown skin, dark eyes, and black hair worn in a sleek asymmetrical bob that's shaved on one side. Pallor is wearing a black and red cutout shirt and one dangly moth wing earring. in the first drawing zie is also wearing a pair of glasses with red lenses that are pointed in the outer corners in a sort of abstract geometric wing shape; the second drawing is exactly the same as the first but she's not wearing her glasses. the art is drawn with textured red line art, chunky shading, and bright cyan highlighting. the background is a cyan to red gradient. end id]

new campaign, new babygirl: sci-fi edition

pallor is an ai programmer who was executed by the government for trying to liberate a giant space moth. the government then resurrected hir using the space moth dna, and somehow did not foresee that it would only make her more mothy

(her earrings and her color scheme are based on the scarlet-bodied wasp moth. look them up, they're very pretty)

[aiart-blog]

Cat lingerie

カワイイ彼女に猫ランジェリーを着せて部屋をウロウロさせたいという欲望を余すこと無く具現化した画像になります。

因みにこのランジェリーはπの大きさやカットアウトされた部分から見える谷間も最も重要なんですが、引き締まったお腹や程よく鍛えられた腹筋も注目すべきポイントだと思うんですよね‼

こんな子が四つん這いになってにゃあにゃあと言いながら笑顔で近寄ってきたらどうします？抱き締めちゃうでしょ？

構って🎵構って🎵とスリスリもしてくるのです❣撫で撫でしちゃうでしょ？

ご褒美に小皿にミルクを注いでペロペロと飲ませるのってどうですか⁉なんか変な性癖に目覚めちゃいそうですね。…うん、ヤバい。

という訳で。 今回はこれくらいにしておこうと思います。

English) The desire to fully embody the image of wanting to dress up my cute girlfriend in cat lingerie and have her wander around the room has been realized without reservation.

By the way, in this lingerie, the size of π and the cleavage visible from the cutout parts are the most important, but I also think that the toned abdomen and moderately trained abs should be points to focus on!

What would you do if a girl like this got down on all fours, saying "meow meow" with a smile and approached you? You'd hug her tightly, right?

She'd also rub against you, asking for attention! You'd probably end up petting her, right?

How about rewarding her by pouring some milk into a small dish and letting her lick it up? That might awaken some strange fetishes… Yeah, that's dangerous.

So, yeah. Let's stop here for now.

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[lizswafford]

Rainy day art journaling in a Traveler's Notebook style insert. Acrylic paint, HP Sproket photos, PET tape, washi tape, magazine cutouts. Pink, yellow, white. - PET tape by @jobsjournal (https://jobsjournal.org/) - A whatever art journal inspired by @janetthecrazy (https://www.hellojanelee.com/) - AI images generated with Artflow https://app.artflow.ai - Photo prints on Zink sticky photo paper with HP Sproket 200 - Golden nature set washi tape from Passion Planner.

[shironezuninja]

I can’t seem to remember 90’s TAS Spidey’s voice on a long term memory basis, the longer I’m away from watching the cartoon.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

In Theaters Now. http://Newsday.com/matt

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[Nice piece of writing by Jim Wright]

I have many friends on the picket lines in Hollywood at the moment.

And I am reminded of this one scene in the film The Thirteenth Warrior.

The Vikings believe their fates were written long before their birth and so they face their death in battle with indifference and maybe even glee and, above all, courage. The movie takes a great deal of time describing how these warriors believe they'll go to Valhalla where "the brave may live forever" and so there is no point in fear or any attempt to avoid your fate. And so they don't. They don't fear and they don't try to avoid death.

And, yet, while there are many, many great scenes in this criminally underappreciated reimagining of Beowulf, there's this one moment, less than 3 seconds on film, that makes the movie for me.

The Vikings have met the monster, they've fought with great courage against overwhelming odds, and they are now trapped in the lair of the Wendol. Many of their number have died by this point and they make a fighting withdrawal, becoming spread out down a narrow tunnel deep, deep underground. The scene is dark and chaotic and fraught with danger. One of the warriors, Helfdane (played by the brilliant Clive Russell) is wounded and can't run any further. He orders the Arab, Ahmed (Antonio Banderas), to go on without him and turns to face the Wendol on his own.

Ahmed goes on down the tunnel and after moment you hear distant fighting and know that the Viking has fallen at last.

When Ahmed catches up to the rest of the band, Herger looks over the Arab's shoulder up the dark tunnel and asks "Helfdane?"

Ahmed shakes his head. No.

And there's this moment. This fleeting second. This tiny brief flicker of pain and loss and FATE on Herger's face. The Viking, this warrior who truly believes the brave will live forever in Valhalla, who joked about the loss of comrades in battle and who has faced his own death over and over throughout the narrative with laughter and fatalism and cheerful indifference, there's this moment where his Viking stoicism cracks and you see for just a fraction of a second his sorrow at the loss of his comrade in arms.

It's an absolutely stunning bit of acting on the part of Norwegian actor Dennis Storhoi, who plays Herger, and if you blink, you'll miss it. It makes the movie. It makes these Vikings human, instead of the cardboard cutouts of most films.

That's acting.

That's craft.

That's art.

No AI, no matter how advanced, could duplicate that moment. No bit of software no matter how cleverly coded and animated could duplicate that second of raw humanity and pain. No computer generated character could transcend its programming to achieve that moment of greatness.

And so it is for a thousand other moments in film. In writing. In music. In art.

AI might imitate humanity, but it can never BE human.

If the bean counters get their way and replace human creatives with software then the future of movies and television will be one of bland cartoon imitation without those moments of brilliance that transcend the art.

Pay the writers.

Pay the actors.

Pay the musicians.

Pay the grips and the gaffers and the camera operators and the animal wranglers and the location scouts and all those people whose names appear in the end credits and we never bother to know but without true art could not exist.

If you're worried about profit, well, you could always replace the executives with AI.

[Thanks Jim Wright]

Business Executives always imagine they can do work without workers, make movies about people without people, write books without writers, make music without musicians, and make art without artists.

Strange how they can never imagine profit without themselves.

[Jim Wright]

[bizarrequazar]

GJ and ZZH Updates — January 8-14

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This is part of a weekly series collecting updates from and relating to Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan.

This post is not wholly comprehensive and is intended as an overview, links provided lead to further details. Dates are in accordance with China Standard Time, the organization is chronological. My own biases on some things are reflected here. Anything I include that is not concretely known is indicated as such, and you’re welcome to do your own research and draw your own conclusions as you see fit. Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns, or additions. :)

[Glossary of names and terms] [Masterlist of my posts about the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

01-08 → Colgate posted photos of fans next to their cutout of Gong Jun, with an equal amount of both solo fans and CP fans shown (including a CPF with “junzhe” written in large letters on her bag.)

01-09 → MARRSGREEN posted a promotional video spoken by Gong Jun.

→ Legend of AnLe passed government review with 39 episodes, which got on hotsearch. It can be expected to air soon! 

→ Colgate posted photos showing public displays of their ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

01-10 → New regulations on AI generated images went into effect in China, requiring users to clearly watermark things like deepfakes and AI art to make it clear that that’s what they are. Unfortunately given that the Instagram is a) on an international platform and b) already criminal activity in the first place, this likely won’t help us here.

→ Calendars with white haired photos that the brand gave as gifts with purchases of over 850 RMB were shipped. On them, Wednesday was abbreviated as “WEN” and the dates were organized into rows of ten rather than weeks. 🤡 [photo] This resulted in infighting between whalers on Weibo about a (better quality) fan-made calendar which was given away for free by lottery, with some fans attacking it as “competition” against the official one despite it only being given away after sales had closed. Members of the scam ring were involved in instigating this.

→ The China Police official Weibo posted a promotional picture of Gong Jun, among a number of other celebrities, paying tribute to the third People's Police Festival. Gong Jun reposted this with the added caption: “The home that some people can’t stay in is the place you want to return to but are unable to. Ahead is difficult and dangerous, keeping the people behind you. Thank you for confronting danger! January 10th is the third #People’s Police Festival#, join me in paying tribute to the People’s Police!”

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ An article about the recent songs was published on Medium, giving an objective summary about the rapid rising and falling on music charts and addressing the concerns about whether Zhang Zhehan is involved. This is an article that was previously published on What’s On Weibo on 01-02 but taken down less than 24 hours later; it now includes more detailed research and overall has a more skeptical air to it. (Thank you for your work Ms. Chu, it’s very appreciated 🙏)

→ The Instagram posted ten travel photos.  Fan Observation: The last one seems to be an attempt to imitate the photo Gong Jun posted on 12-17 of the person in a hoodie taking a photo. 

→ Hogan tweeted three photos from Gong Jun’s Wonderland photoshoot highlighting their shoes.

→ Charlotte Tilbury posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

01-11 → Colgate posted a promotional video spoken by Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun posted eight travel photos from Yunnan and a photo from the filming of Fox Spirit Matchmaker to his personal Weibo. Caption: “Some remaining film fragments​​​​” An hour later he also posted seven of these plus an additional one to Xiao Hong Shu, caption: “Shock!  Didn’t realize, there was still stock!” and four plus another additional one to Instagram, caption: “😏” 

→ #GongJun trended on Twitter.

→ 2022 satellite non-prime TV rankings were released, with Gong Jun’s shows Dream Garden and Begin Again in the two highest spots respectively.

→ Honor posted a promotional video spoken by Gong Jun.

→ QuelleVous made a post linking Da Xiong (Gong Jun’s manager)’s current Weibo marketing account, where she has been leaking industry information in the same manner as on her previous account since 2022-04-06. These leaks include information about Gong Jun and Fox Spirit Matchmaker, and at the time of this post her most recent post was only a few hours ago.

01-12 → Esquire posted a teaser video featuring Gong Jun for their January issue. (1129 kadian) Caption: Before the lens focuses  he was already ready  What about you?” A few seconds of behind the scenes footage from this was leaked a couple days earlier, I will not be linking it.

→ The Instagram posted six more travel photos.

→ The clothing brand A BIG THANKS posted photos of Gong Jun wearing their coat.

01-13 → Esquire posted the double covers for their issue featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian) Caption: “Only those who have really traveled far will be grateful for every inch of land and their own feet. Compared with the past, @ Gong Jun Simon cares more about the future.” This was reposted by Gong Jun’s studio with the added caption, “The ripples are quiet, reflecting the willful reflection. Boss @ Gong Jun Simon releases inspiration in the camera, and everything can be traced.” It was also reposted by Hogan. (1129)

Half an hour later, Esquire also posted another teaser video. Caption: “‘I hope everyone can see a different side of me’, @ Gong Jun Simon has said this sentence many times, and he has done it.”

→ Colgate posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun’s studio posted a video (flashing lights cw) of behind the scenes footage from the photoshoot. Caption: “The snapshots float, and move willfully. Boss @ Gong Jun Simon encounters the true self and enjoys every moment of freedom.” BGM is Como tu by Cannabeats, Zona Infame, and Klibre.

→ Esquire posted eight photos from their photoshoot with Gong Jun. Caption: “For @ Gong Jun Simon, growth is about seeing the gap between reality and ideal, and then working hard to close it.”

→ Gong Jun posted both of the Esquire covers and four of the photos. Caption: “This is the first time I’ve tried a long curly hairstyle, hope you like it, thanks to @ Esquire” Esquire reposted this with the added caption, “Happy cooperation! ❤️❤️❤️ Looking forward to unlocking more new looks with Esquire in the future [3 shiba inu emojis]” Gong Jun also posted the photos to his Xiao Hong Shu, caption: “Anyway I think  It looks pretty good! 😛” and as two posts [here] and [here] to his Instagram, captions: “😜😜😜” and “Wuhu, looks good”

→ Hogan posted six of the Esquire photos highlighting their shoes.

→ The Instagram posted a clip of the third song.

→ Gong Jun’s studio posted twelve behind the scenes photos from the shoot. Caption: “Boss @ Gong Jun Simon’s filming break is broadcasting 📸” They commented on the post, “Make up a colour” with a full colour photo of one of the photos rendered in monochrome in the main post.

→ Gong Jun’s studio posted a douyin of more behind the scenes footage. Caption: “Today's ‘set diary’! Capturing the willful and comfortable boss @ Gong Jun Simon under the camera” The BGM is a slowed reverb remix of the Ian Asher mashup of One Kiss by Dua Lipa and I Was Never There by The Weeknd (this took me so long to find, please listen ot it.)

→ Gong Jun was seen doing a photoshoot at Universal Studios Beijing, where he also watched the parade they were holding.

→ The Muses account (associated with Xie Yihua) posted an official statement discouraging fans from using the previous tactics to inflate sales activity, claiming that they had never encouraged this. (Bullshit.) They also made a post announcing the title Deep Blue Man for the album these songs will be compiled in. Fan Observation: Zhang Zhehan has always previously been associated with light blue. Them explicitly using dark blue is likely another intended smear, as the colour is associated with Kuomintang political party.

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

01-14 → #TheRealZhangZhehan trended on Twitter, staying there for over twelve hours.

→ The third song was released on YouTube and later Apple Music and Spotify. Fan Observation: It was noticed that comments from some familiar names (whalers) were made on the video six hours before it was posted. This can be done by initially posting the video privately and giving people the link, which results in the view and comment counts reflecting the actions by those with the link so it looks like the video is more immediately popular than it truly is once it’s made public. It’s therefore highly suspected that whalers were given the link specifically with this aim.

→ #GongJun trended on Twitter.

→ Esquire posted a video featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian) [subbed video] Caption: “Looking back on 2022, @ Gong Jun Simon said: ‘You can only make the best choice at the moment. Now that the choice is over, the rest will be handed over[.] Let time prove it, there is no regret, everything is good.’”

→ 361° posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian)

→ MUJOSH posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun. (1129 kadian) They later posted a behind the scenes video. (flashing lights cw)

→ QuelleVous made a post revealing which of Xie Yihua’s people is the one behind the Muses account (Zhao Yao).* A few hours later the account made a post saying it would no longer be active in order to “give Zhehan more focus.” *When I’ve included stuff about this account in the past, I believe I’ve usually just referred to it as Xie Yihua. I apologize for the mistake. 

→ Kangshifu posted a photo ad featuring Gong Jun.

→ Gong Jun posted nine photos from visiting Universal Studios Beijing the previous day. Caption: “Played all day hahahahahahahaha [three husky emojis]” This was reposted by MUJOSH highlighting their glasses. He also posted the photos to his Xiao Hong Shu, caption: “Happy New Year  🐼” and his Instagram, caption: “wuhu～”

→ An interview with BRTV that Gong Jun did for their Spring Festival Gala was released. [subbed video]

→ Gong Jun’s studio posted nine more photos from Universal Studios Beijing, these all of Gong Jun in Harry Potter robes. Caption: “Boss @ Gong Jun Simon's surprise trip, a day immersed in adventure and ‘wow’!” This was again reposted by MUJOSH.

→ 361° posted two photo ads featuring Gong Jun.

→ Esquire posted the article of their interview with Gong Jun. [partial translation]

→ CAPA updated their website, now including a list of their main leaders and subcommittees (aka a step towards more transparency.) It’s possible that this was something they were ordered to do rather than something they did voluntarily, but at this time that is only speculation.

Addition 01-16: Chinese film report posted a video of Gong Jun writing a blessing for the new year. [written translation]

Additional Reading: → Flora’s daily news

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[scrumpylikesthings]

I’ve been sitting with my feelings on this for a couple of days now and think I wanna talk about it. 

I tried out SudoWrite. I was curious so I just poked around for 10 minutes or so. I put in a paragraph of Meat Cute and had it do a predictive next sentence. Then variations on a sentence. I put in a rough outline of Meat Cute, rough descriptions of David and Micah, and let it run a full outline, full character descriptions, all the way to writing the first chapter. 

It was bad. It was cringey bad. It was so gawd awful bad. 

And yeah it did make me feel a little better about my own writing, but it really bothered me. It hurt. It really upset me. I went in thinking it would be funny haha or maybe even a little helpful, mostly expecting just a waste of time, but damn. I was not expecting that gut punch. 

I can’t quite place it either. Maybe it was seeing my characters get skewed or seeing them written so horribly. Maybe it was looking at this bastardization of my own work. Maybe the cringe was just that cringey.

Maybe it was bigger. Maybe it was looking at a brand new way to pump out swill and drivel for mass production and publication and turning my craft into another consumerist vehicle. Another tool for contrepreneurs to exploit and cut out the underpaid ghost writer entirely. 

Or maybe it was the way it felt like a mathematic formula. It felt exactly how it was: feeding my raw materials into a machine, pulling the lever, and getting the distilled grey cube at the end of the conveyor belt; like a Looney Tunes. That it took the magic out of writing, the romanticism of crafting prose, the feeling of learning and growing and creating and evolving as an artist. It was sterile. Maybe seeing these characters that I’m invested in (probably way too invested in) get turned into these antiseptic cardboard cutouts hurt on an irrational and personal level. 

I had these kind of feelings years ago (before I started writing fic) when I knew I wouldn’t be able to sell the stories I was writing, that I would never make money as a writer, that the stories I was working so hard on weren’t up to snuff with the market. I HATED thinking like that. It hurt to think like that. That while I was creating stories I wanted to be writing, I was still thinking about other people. And this AI bullshit feels exactly like that: making stuff for other people. 

I can see a way it’d be useful for someone; someone who might be stuck in writer’s block or need help with their outline or can’t figure out how to word a sentence. But I have the shower for that. I have long walks and music and friends I can talk things out with. 

I’m still upset and shook and riled about this. I think I’m just going to avoid AI generators and news about them. Just not think about it unless it forces me to.

I recommend avoiding SudoWrite. Its not worth it. 

Anyways, cringe under the cut:

I cannot tell you how much I HAAAAAATE mirror descriptions. . . buzz cut 42 year old. 

I . . . I just. . . 

im dead  Weirdly enough, it got that it takes place in Ohio right. Guess you can take out the art, but you can’t take out the Ohio. 

[jewishdragon]

from what i understand, AI art is good/useful for the following things

fun and memes! No one profiting, just goofs.

generating references which can then be given to artists/designers who are paid money to bring the concept to life properly (even if the job for the artist is just making a better reference. the idea is to use it as a tool for someone who for any reason is having trouble using words to describe what they want and the AI is assisting them). Its like using those online dollmakers to make refs for OCs.

Probably an offshoot of #2 which is just personal use like idk you wanted to funky looking monster ref for a dnd game or similar personal non-profit and google images failed you

Things it is bad for/reasons it is bad:

It is using people's art without permission/credit/payment. All AI generators should be trained only public domain content or content that the creator consented to be used.

One shouldnt call it art and get paid for the content they create with it. (basically what youve done is make a collage with digital magazine cutouts but magazines are public content and were paid for and shiz)

ALso dont give your own faces to any AI generator holy crap. but it is funny to see people putting politicians into the anime AI thing. This isnt a "Reason its bad" because this isnt about the art aspect anymore its about privacy/protecting yourself!!!

[detectivecatstorm]

i had a long conan dream the day before and i wrote it down so im just gonna copy and paste it ENJOY

I was watching a Detective Conan movie which was very confusing. first there was a crossover with fairly odd parents and I was freaking out but then I couldn't prove it to anyone because it didn't come back on the TV. I tried flipping the channels and I saw a Eastern European cartoon style that made me relax because it was good. I was standing in some sort of card store or collectible store because I was watching this TV with a bunch of items around me on shelves. I was trying to prove it was real to (friend who doesn't watch DC) for some reason. then a bunch more Conan stuff happened, there was some sort of ice cream or sweets store that was actually evil and it kidnapped all of the DB except Ai who did not appear in the show at all. there was a pixel art section with agasa and the DB running around at the bottom of the screen in profile. they were put on a cruise ship and Conan and Mitsuhiko were trapped in these gift boxes for a whole day and I wondered if they had to pee. the bad guys were torture guys that were really evil and I thought to myself that this was really extreme for the show. but then they broke out of the office room that they were trapped in and on the shelf they saw another box that probably had a dead child in it from 2016. at this point Conan said to ran “ this was when we were younger don't you remember?” and Ran understood but didn't acknowledge that he was saying something that sounded like shinichi. they didn't open the box and moved on and I thought they probably didn't want to scar themselves with what was inside. then they rescued everyone else and they had to like jump across these hand hold things like at a playground and then there was a giant conveyor belt that you had to choose items as you went down, there was coffee that Conan wanted and at the bottom there was a death barrier that you had to avoid for some reason. Then the next part was where there was a movie in England and Conan had to rescue the queen who seemed to be a completely different person than the real queen from xivu arath who looked like a purple alien like from the movie alien instead of being a hive. She wanted to marry the queen by winning the soccer tournament or something. there was a cutout section that was basically a trailer for destiny 2. she said a bunch of lore stuff about destiny that made sense to me and I thought it was foreshadowing for the plot that was happening in the game. but Conan kicked a giant soccer ball at her and then he took apart an evil machine piece by piece with extreme prejudice. and then I was at the set at the end of the movie and I was taking pictures of these 3d set models that look like dinosaur aliens and I was like oh look at the shine on these and they had a brown color but when you got up close they had a blue or yellow sheen depending on the angle and I was trying to take photos of them for (friend who likes destiny 2) but it was hard. and then they turned into pillows with the sequins that you flip over but I still tried to get pictures of them. and then Conan told me to like change the angle or something. I thought it was weird but helpful. and then I guess my dad or something or someone was looking at this and was thinking about how Japan was obsessed with detective Conan for some reason. I think this is where I woke up

[gandalfsbignaturals]

your post about fair use is entirely incorrect; fair use is intended to protect those doing reviews, critique, parody, and analysis of other pieces of media. it does not mean “i found this online so i’m allowed to use it however i want”. do some actual research into copyright law before spreading lies to support literal art theft

let me ask you something about art theft.

i have a lovely collage that was made by a friend for me. its a collection of magazine cutouts mostly. none of the images in it were drawn by a human hand; they were created by printing presses reproducing a pattern. there are likely a thousand copies of any of those images available to anyone willing to look for them.

is it stolen art?

now a different question. say i input a command for an ai to generate an image. when i input those commands, it is going to attempt to generate a unique image by collating its data from a large set of other images, and its going to place and color pixels based on its statistical modeling of the concepts contained in my prompt. it is, on a conceptual, essentially a computer-generated collage. none of the pixels were placed by human hands, no, but they were placed based on parameters set by me using statistical models that already exist.

is this stolen art?

another question. i learned to draw by copying art that i saw. mostly comic books and animation. i actually spent about a year where most of the drawing i was doing was done by first tracing over a screenshot of BTAS or a stock image, and then redrawing it without tracing, usually a few times. it allowed me to create models in my head of how human bodies move, look, and act. now, when i draw things, how they look is very much influenced by the art that i studied and trained myself on. in fact, sometimes i still reference images when im drawing, and in fact i often use screenshots of shows i like. the other day i did a whole series of thumbnails that were all based on magic the gathering card art.

am i stealing art?

you may think my questions pedantic, but i think theyre important. these ai image generators arent doing anything a human couldnt do. they just do it faster, because they are computers, and computers are made to do things that humans can do but faster.

so why is it considered art theft? is it art theft because they arent fully original images, but cobbled together based on a database? is it art theft because they are referencing other images? is it art theft because the people using them didnt have to devote hours holding a pencil to make them?

i do not think that ai generated images are any more "art theft" than any other sort of image. obviously they can be used for art theft--copying someones work and changing a few things around is kind of a dick move. but thats not inherent to ai art. just as easily as i could copy an artists style with an ai, i could trace over a piece of art or a photograph and try to pass it off as my original work. in fact, because of my particular skillset, it would probably be easier for me to do that than to try and wrestle with an ai prompt for hours trying to produce a decent looking image.

next time you accuse someone of art theft, ask yourself something. are they actually trying to pass off another artists work as their own? are they making money off of the image? are they trying to copyright the image? are they actually doing anything that a very determined human couldnt accomplish on their own?