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StarNightLynx t1_j5xvc3g wrote

What's really sad is that the AIs were trained by stealing work from artists. Millions of images from living artists were fed into the algorithm to train it without any of their consent.

And the AI art isn't particularly better than the living artists. It's just really good at replicating what top level artists can do, since their work was used to train it. You can enter their name and a prompt into the AI, similar to what artist's clients do when they commission them, and get pretty solid new variations of work in their style, all because their images and names were stolen against their will and are now freely available for the general public to use.

The AI would never exist or be able to produce work of that caliber without those artists, and it's now ready to destroy their careers and make it much harder for them to live off their skill.

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czk_21 t1_j5z7aae wrote

> AIs were trained by stealing work from artists.

no, thats not stealing, its same as if u were looking at pictures and took inspiration from it, everyone is free to for example try to make a painting in someones else "style", what is illegal is presenting picture u drew as work of "original" and demanding money for it

this is same for any profession where experienced person help new one to outgrow them

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StarNightLynx t1_j5zii80 wrote

I would argue that permanently storing mathematical representations of an artist's entire body of work to create new images in their style is completely different from "taking inspiration" from other artists. It might also be illegal, but we'll see what comes of the class action lawsuits.

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czk_21 t1_j5zsvso wrote

how is it completely different? the artist also remember how that scenery/image looked like, they often paint it while looking at it too

anyone has right to interpret and paint what they see/saw or think about, everyone has right to learn and that should aply to AI as well

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Hostilis_ t1_j610t1y wrote

They're not storing "mathematical representations" in the way you think they are. They're storing neural representations. The neural networks used in these models are based on the brain. So it is actually very similar to how real artists take inspiration from their predecessors. These networks are not "collage machines" piecing together snippets from other artists' work.

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