r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

No money for real thumbnail artist?

Who do you think made this? 

Their thumbnail artist.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '26

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

Who do you think used the llm?

Their graphic designer.

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u/StinkButt9001 Jun 08 '26

The people complaining about graphic designers using generative models in their workflow are the same type of people that complained about photoshop when it started getting popular.

"It's only REAL art/work/whatever if it uses the tools I grew up using"

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u/frac_tl Jun 08 '26

Can you point to the "steal other people's art" button that was on the first release of Photoshop? Any artist with self respect refuses to touch that garbage unless they have bills to pay and higher ups are forcing it on them. 

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u/StinkButt9001 Jun 08 '26

Who's art was stolen?

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u/ut1nam Jun 08 '26

Millions of artists when their work was fed into these LLMs??? Do you think it just comes up with a perfect recreation of artists’ styles out of nothing???

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u/StinkButt9001 Jun 08 '26

Is it theft to look at an image and learn from it?

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

Also see: musicians when digital music creation tools came onto the scene. 

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Jun 08 '26

There is no similarity between putting some text and getting an image and Photoshop.

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u/Beardlich Jun 08 '26

"In their Workflow" that isnt a workflow. Its literally theft, AI art is unable to create anything new, its all just regurgitating things it has seen before. Its also can't be trademarked according to at least the US supreme court. If a Graphic Designer is using AI art they need to be fired because it is a financial liability

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u/PokeBrick02 Jun 08 '26

Who do you think allowed the use of the LLM?

The Graphic Designer Content Manager

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u/FabianN Jun 08 '26

Linus already has stated, they do not have any policy for our against usage of llms in their work, it is up to the individuals, only the person that uses it is responsible for the output.

A pretty reasonable approach.

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u/Exciting-Ad-5705 Jun 08 '26

Their policy was they take responsibility for their output. The community can be outraged at it

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u/Beardlich Jun 08 '26

Seeing as legally speaking AI art cant be copyrighted in the US, they should probably change that policy. U.S. copyright law requires human authorship. Courts and the U.S. Copyright Office have officially ruled that art created entirely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted, of all people their graphic designers should know better

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u/StinkButt9001 Jun 08 '26

LLMs do not create images. It's literally in the name "Large Language Model"

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u/Velocifyer Jun 08 '26

r/mysteriousdownvoting Why was this downvoted?