#ai-generated art

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"Neo-Fantasy Heroines"

A stunning collection of dynamic portraits blending realism and fantasy, featuring diverse heroines wielding swords, seeking solace in meditative moments, and reflecting in atmospheric settings. These artworks celebrate strength, introspection, and empowering narratives of powerful women.

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"Megan Fox Slays to Britney’s ‘Give Me More

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The Mind-bending AI-generated art of MacBaconai

Step into a world where creativity meets artificial intelligence! Macbaconai crafts mesmerizing architectural imagery that pushes the boundaries of imagination. From futuristic cityscapes to surreal structures, these works transform architectural concepts into stunning visual art.

Whether you’re an architecture enthusiast or an AI art admirer, these creations are sure to inspire and captivate. Explore how technology reshapes our perception of design and artistry.

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what do you like the best about Ai

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OpenAI's Faux Ghibli Art Goes Viral, Highlighting Copyright Concerns. Miyazaki's Criticism of AI from 2016 re-emerges. #StudioGhibli #anime #animation

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Petra Voice

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you will not replace me

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no matter what your most embarrassing moment in life is, at least it’s not having fucking chat gpt write fanfic for you bc you’re too lazy to do it yourself

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Sonic approves

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Cory Doctorow shares a lot of important thoughts on the topic of AI-generated "art" and how expanding copyright (rather than labor rights) is less likely to benefit artists than to help make corporations richer:

his take on why LLMs (large language models, or what techbros are calling "artificial intelligence") can't produce art really resonates with me as a long-time writer and teacher of writing:

"Look, art is irrational in the sense that it speaks to us at some non-rational, or sub-rational level. Caring about the tribulations of imaginary people or being fascinated by pictures of things that don't exist (or that aren't even recognizable) doesn't make any sense. There's a way in which all art is like an optical illusion for our cognition, an imaginary thing that captures us the way a real thing might.

"But art is amazing. Making art and experiencing art makes us feel big, numinous, irreducible emotions. Making art keeps me sane. Experiencing art is a precondition for all the joy in my life. Having spent most of my life as a working artist, I've come to the conclusion that the reason for this is that art transmits an approximation of some big, numinous irreducible emotion from an artist's mind to our own. That's it: that's why art is amazing.

"AI doesn't have a mind. It doesn't have an intention. The aesthetic choices made by AI aren't choices, they're averages. As Farrell writes, 'LLM art sometimes seems to communicate a message, as art does, but it is unclear where that message comes from, or what it means. If it has any meaning at all, it is a meaning that does not stem from organizing intention.'"

that's it exactly - that's why looking at or reading AI-generated botshit can feel so uncomfortable:

AI-generated "art" is the uncanny valley of creativity

but why I wanted to share Doctorow's article here is for his argument about why expanding copyright protections is unlikely to save art careers (it's sound... and discomforting):

"Neither AI companies nor entertainment companies will pay creative workers if they don't have to. But for any company contemplating selling an AI-generated work, the fact that it is born in the public domain presents a substantial hurdle, because anyone else is free to take that work and sell it or give it away.

"Whether or not AI 'art' will ever be good art isn't what our bosses are thinking about when they pay for AI licenses: rather, they are calculating that they have so much market power that they can sell whatever slop the AI makes, and pay less for the AI license than they would make for a human artist's work. As is the case in every industry, AI can't do an artist's job, but an AI salesman can convince an artist's boss to fire the creative worker and replace them with AI."

will this lawsuit or expansion of copyright law do anything to help artists fight corporations who get rich from our art? for those suing, yes, but it's uncertain for everyone else

what we really need are labor laws "to improve our conditions. That's what the Hollywood writers did, in their groundbreaking 2023 strike" that's now helping so many creatives

if new laws governing the use of art in generated content are to help the artists who create rather than corporations who just rake in profits from our labor, we need labor laws that affect all corporate relationships with all creators, not just copyright laws that regulate individual rights that are easily stripped away in contracts, thus largely benefitting corporations

AI models can seemingly do it all: generate songs, photos, stories, and pictures of what your dog would look like as a medieval monarch. 

But all of that data and imagery is pulled from real humans — writers, artists, illustrators, photographers, and more — who have had their work compressed and funneled into the training minds of AI without compensation. 

Kelly McKernan is one of those artists. In 2023, they discovered that Midjourney, an AI image generation tool, had used their unique artistic style to create over twelve thousand images. 

“It was starting to look pretty accurate, a little infringe-y,” they told The New Yorker last year. “I can see my hand in this stuff, see how my work was analyzed and mixed up with some others’ to produce these images.” 

For years, leading AI companies like Midjourney and OpenAI, have enjoyed seemingly unfettered regulation, but a landmark court case could change that. 

On May 9, a California federal judge allowed ten artists to move forward with their allegations against Stability AI, Runway, DeviantArt, and Midjourney. This includes proceeding with discovery, which means the AI companies will be asked to turn over internal documents for review and allow witness examination. 

Lawyer-turned-content-creator Nate Hake took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to celebrate the milestone, saying that “discovery could help open the floodgates.” 

“This is absolutely huge because so far the legal playbook by the GenAI companies has been to hide what their models were trained on,” Hake explained...

“I’m so grateful for these women and our lawyers,” McKernan posted on X, above a picture of them embracing Ortiz and Andersen. “We’re making history together as the largest copyright lawsuit in history moves forward.” ...

The case is one of many AI copyright theft cases brought forward in the last year, but no other case has gotten this far into litigation. 

“I think having us artist plaintiffs visible in court was important,” McKernan wrote. “We’re the human creators fighting a Goliath of exploitative tech.”

“There are REAL people suffering the consequences of unethically built generative AI. We demand accountability, artist protections, and regulation.” 

-via GoodGoodGood, May 10, 2024

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LEO XIV HAS DECLARED BUTLERIAN JIHAD

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(image description: a three panel drawing with very simple sketched lines and only a little quick coloration. it depicts a woman sitting at a desk, with a computer keyboard, musing aloud; "sometimes I wish my creative works would just make themselves...", after which she is startled by the arrival of a stick figure with a square head labeled "generative AI," which replies; "I can do that." the final panel is the only one with detailed color and lighting, showing the artist whipping out a pencil-shaped laser gun and exploding the AI entity. end description.)

had a conversation in a writing server, decided to make a meme about it.

[sheltiechicago]

The Mind-bending AI-generated art of MacBaconai

Step into a world where creativity meets artificial intelligence! Macbaconai crafts mesmerizing architectural imagery that pushes the boundaries of imagination. From futuristic cityscapes to surreal structures, these works transform architectural concepts into stunning visual art.

Whether you’re an architecture enthusiast or an AI art admirer, these creations are sure to inspire and captivate. Explore how technology reshapes our perception of design and artistry.