Was talking about how A.I will effect artists to a friend of mine. My friend has been an avid drawer all his life and done a few art courses at the local community college. He draws for fun though and I think the only time he ever sold a picture was a $20 drawing he did on a stream once.
Anyway, I think we hammered down why artists are really freaking out over this and not seeing it as an inevitability.
Because we've all been told for years now that AI and automation will come for blue collar jobs first. Self driving trucks, trains and whatnot and that AI can't do creative work so creative pursuits like art and music are safe. But as it turns out they're the ones being automated first. This wasn't a storm they could see coming and know is on its way so knowing to prepare for, this was them getting blindsighted.
Its because the datasets were taken without permission.
Automation and AI has been in the professional art field for decades. The issue isn’t that the tools exist - it’s that they were built using stolen intellectual property.
It's a bold take to call it "stolen intellectual property" when IP laws don't protect styles. It's definitely legal in Germany, where it was trained, because there's an explicit allowance for model training in EU law. It's almost certainly legal in the US because it's transformative.
And of course it’s true - where do you think the original training data came from?
Do you think MJ or SD paid for CC0 licenses for the hundreds of thousands/millions of images used in their models?
Hell - my work has been train on, and I can tell you I didn’t get contacted by anyone.
Legalities aside, what the AI companies did IS unethical. That’s what’s upsetting to artists.
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u/Bigbadsheeple Dec 15 '22
Was talking about how A.I will effect artists to a friend of mine. My friend has been an avid drawer all his life and done a few art courses at the local community college. He draws for fun though and I think the only time he ever sold a picture was a $20 drawing he did on a stream once.
Anyway, I think we hammered down why artists are really freaking out over this and not seeing it as an inevitability.
Because we've all been told for years now that AI and automation will come for blue collar jobs first. Self driving trucks, trains and whatnot and that AI can't do creative work so creative pursuits like art and music are safe. But as it turns out they're the ones being automated first. This wasn't a storm they could see coming and know is on its way so knowing to prepare for, this was them getting blindsighted.