It'll be a sad time when human creativity is no longer needed. This also goes beyond art. Sure the idea of being able to AI generate the perfect song, movie, dance video, cartoon, book, etc, in a few decades time might be cool now but we'll lose passion for such things very quickly.
We’re losing the meaning of a singular perspective. Like- I look at art to see someone’s point of view, or to hear their story. Blending everyone’s work into a meaningless slurry, into just empty style and aesthetic. Like - it’s the human-to-human interaction that makes art fun and meaningful. It’s horrifying to lose that.
@@bunnywar This a bit like the egg and the chicken and which one is the first. I know what you mean but lets not forget that the initial testing of all these platforms was done by the users for free. Users who knew that all the data these programs used was stolen...And they did it anyway...
AI is getting out of control. I remember studying the potential effects of AI years ago at University, was terrified then and terrified now. Yes if used properly then it can have significant benefits. However, it’s being misused in the most disruptive way possible. Especially when it comes to art, literature, music etc….
I'm currently studying to be a concept artist and I'm fuming that ai generated images have gotten this far. It shouldn't even be an argument they have stolen artists work, and profited off of it. Ridiculous that the current court bs going on surrounding it is taking so logn
Thanks for covering this! Artists are the canaries in the coalmine for this type of scraping: is it really fair for companies to be able to use your child's prom pictures or school pictures posted on Facebook to train a ML image [re]generator? Is it fair to use people's faces posted on the web to train facial recognition software? So that it's easier to track them accross video feeds across the world?
so where do artist take their inspiration from? they probably got their own style based on a collection of style and influence, that's also what AI is doing.
@@vinchino You are going off on a tangent, the issue has nothing to do with whether ai is inspired the same way humans are inspired. That's a separate philosophical argument. It's an interesting philosophical question whether or not ai learns like humans, but it doesn't pertain to the issue. The issue at the hand is whether ai companies have permission to train their ai on artists' works. They don't. Artists have explicitly said they don't want ai training from their work. They are okay with humans training from their work, it's actually a time honored tradition to allow artists to learn from other artists. As long as the ai companies don't have permission to use artists' work in the training set, what they are engaged in is theft. This is why artists and companies like Getty images, which do get permission from artists to use their work are upset by what the ai companies have done. It's why politicians have asked if the ai has compensated artists and musicians for their work, when they've grilled ai people in congress and parliaments around the world.
@vinchino their own style evolves from inspiration from others but each artist will bring their unique spin on things and move past copying. Stop justifying art theft.
They consented with the terms that Adobe can use their work for any purpose regarding development of their software long long ago. And there have been warnings and beggings of lawyers about to read the terms of use for years now. It is just, that people care a shit about such things until they feel the consequences. 🤷♂ In Germany we say "TJA!"
I haven't been presented with a single good argument as to why AI art should be "here to stay." Just because the Big Data approach to training AI can generate imagery doesn't mean we need it to do so.
@@TomNook. So AI-generated imagery is freak'n convenient and cheap. I can't get past the fact that, for generations, AI wasn't necessary to get the work done. And there are a lot of artists and designers who would still like to do the work. There isn't any argument as why AI-generated art is necessary or should be used.
@@amorphix7790 You don't understand the nature of my objection. The benefits of automating unpleasant, uninteresting work is not at issue. AI "art" isn't art. There is no intention behind it, no mind creating anything, no creativity involved at all. It's simply an example of the big-data approach to machine learning, this time for the purpose of putting creative people out of work. The problem is that actual creativity, the product of people who have pronounced divergent thinking capacity, is being treated as though it has no value. Talentless geeks and others can use big-data machine learning as a crutch to get around employing creative human minds.
Step 1: Scrap the Internet for content, copyrighted or not, without credit or consent. Step 2: Claim that the data you stole, and base your entire commercial product on without compensation, was so large it would be inconvenient to respect copyright and would "hinder progress". Step 3: Rush to exploit the industries you are introducing AI to before regulations can take place, claiming it's democratizing art and improving productivity, all the while trying to cut out the middle man who's work you stole that makes your product possible, when AI only really benefits CEOs, and those at the top. Step 4: Profit. It's not that hard, all artists want is their consent to be respected, their work to be credited, and their time compensated. Just like any other work. People are so used to getting "free" art, that they think there is no effort in creating it, and that those that create it are entitled with time, and so shouldn't be compensated for their effort. If you think prompting (glorified google search really) is act of creation, you're just telling me you never bothered lifting a pencil in your life. I'll never understand the desire to say "I made this" and feel proud of it, when you've let something or someone else do it for you. Regardless if you want to call AI/ML art or not, it doesn't matter, when its creation depends completely on corrupted seed of theft. It doesn't matter how good the meal the chef makes is, if he stole all the ingredients from nearby stores to make it. I'm so tired.
I'm tired of hearing about prompt engineers and how artists need to learn that. There's ChatGPT and a plethora of ai systems that aren't covered in the news. All those talking about the skill involved prompt engineering can't even grasp that these technologies will be combined in ways that will get rid of new jobs created by ai like prompt engineering. If a human isn't needed to create art, but types text into image ai, there's no reason a Chatgpt like program add on can't type in the text. It's going to bring alot of harm a lot of people, across many aspects of our society. And the sad part will be, it won't be ai replacing humans, it'll be ai that's stolen countless human data that represents our vast number of cultures to function, that will channel massive profits into the hands of a few at the expense of humanity. And people actively encourage others to help contribute to this and quit protesting, all in the name of progress at any costs. If humanity loses, well that's just how evolution is supposed to go.
That's wrong though. AI companies weren't idiots in the EU at least. They made the laws in 2019 and LAION started as soon as Germany adopted those laws itself. So you need to add - Step 0: Have universities convince politicians to create a machine learning friendly environment, with the real concern that without AI development centered in Europe, they will again be left behind the US.
@@minyaw1234 Is that how you explain data loundering? Sure, let me fix that for you. Step 0: Create a non-profit "research" based company that scrapes the internet, who is allowed the **exception** of scraping for that same and only purpose, then use your other company to use the research data from the first company for commercial use, keeping them separate to avoid the law and use loopholes. There. I'm done here.
@@VengefulEggroll Problem for you - even if you think that 60c of the German copyright law doesn't apply and somehow can prove the supposed influence Stability has over LAION - LAION uses common crawl to scrape images, which supports the machine readable opt out in 44b of the German copyright law for machine learning for commercial purposes. So even if it is found to not be a research institute, which mind you, it is - but even if that wasn't the case, it was acting according the rules for commercial use to begin with.
@@minyaw1234 First when did German law become unable to be adapted to new issues in society and when did German law become the rule the world must follow. Pay attention to the news. The US and the EU and countries around the world are looking into ways to regulate this new tech. AI companies are asking for governments to lay out rules for this new tech. You can say German law allows ai companies to take data without permission from the owners of that data. But I've seen politicians in hearings ask AI company CEOs "Since the ai depends on artist's work, why aren't artists being compensated by the ai companies?" Why would politicians who makes the laws ask that question if what AI companies are doing is settled law? And why would AI CEO's stumble over the question instead of saying, "Well according to German copyright law, we have every right to do so."
What's infuriating is that artists are having to potentially pay extra for protection instead of the other way around where these businesses that already make billions of dollars aren't required to pay people to use their images to add to their AI learning databases. And of course this extends to written language, too. I'm curious how Disney is watching this. They're notoriously litigious and you'd think they'd be all over AI companies for scraping their intellectual property. Or, maybe AI companies KNEW they'd be in trouble so excluded Disney from their data scraping? Anyone know?
How much do you owe to Disney for copyright infringement as you brain has a copy of their movies that you can use to make derivative work? Art we view is training data.
@@abram730 Our brains don't store pixel perfect copies of billions of images, and our hands can't reproduce pixel perfect versions of the images in our heads. The process of synthesis for producing an art piece is fundamentally different to a computer producing an image from a prompt. Stop being deliberately obtuse.
@@Sebastian_Terrazas AI doesn't store pixel perfect copies of billions of images, and can't reproduce pixel perfect versions of the images. The process of synthesis for producing an art piece is not fundamentally different to a human producing an image. Stop pretending that things you make up in your head are reality.
@@abram730 So what you're saying is that the AI itself is the artist, right? If the process of AI generating an image is not different than that of a human producing an art piece, then it still means that the people writing the prompts are not artists. EDIT:typo
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still better than somebody stealing somebody else's photos and videos to use or catfish scams, which is super common. in fact, it's probably currently being automated by AI.
Im a pixel artist for a couple mmos. And quite often i see people claiming they made my work.. if a large company used it for a commercial product like an ai i would be rather annoyed.
Copyright law absolutely protects Artists from having their works used to form AI, without the Artist's permission. If an AI programmer uses copyrighted material, without permission, to train their AI they are breaking the law. I will guarantee this has already been done. Those creating AI need to show the sources they have used to build the intelligence within.
where exactly the law is being broken ? this narrative is the rant of parasites, pseudo artist who never made it on their own nor would they ever be, claiming now its own success is being stollen by AI
According to the dictionary definition, “art” is: “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” The key word for me in that definition is “human”. For all its possible technical accomplishment, AI art lacks the *human* and is, in that sense, not creating art but *replicating* art. For these reasons, AI art will never have the emotive power of human art.
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nope. what's happening is that AI is demonstrating that the artsy-fartsy claims about art being somehow magically soulful are wrong. art consumers do not actually give a single shit about whether whoever or whatever made the art had a thought while doing it, only the product matters. any perception of the consumer of what the artist may have intended or thought is imaginary, it's entirely inferred from the product and not actually a reflection of the production process. if AI makes the same artwork as a human (yes, I know it's not quite that good yet), it makes absolutely no difference to the consumer which is which.
@@Ass_of_AmalekAnd when ai comes for your job because consumers don't care how your job is accomplished, just remember artists won't be there to help you.
@@Ass_of_Amalek Who said anything about art being “magically soulful”? (Incidentally, the best art *is* magic *and* soulful.) I simply said AI “art” will never trump human art, quite simply because AI “art” isn’t itself genuinely creative and is simply parasitical, feeding off what has been created by humans. Seethe.
If they argue that AI learn like a human does, that means they create like human does, therefore prompters could not really say that they are the artist at all, rather they are at most the commissioner or Art director for the AI “art”, which means they can not have the copyright over the artwork, if they argue that AI doesn’t learn like human does, then the AI companies are just stealing from artist, which is violating copyright, either way AI “art” violates copyright law. People who defend AI art theft wants to also be called “AI Artist” and own the copyright of those “art”, they want to have their cake and eat it to.
I have some opinions: If somehow human works will be stolen and used to train artificial intelligence, Would it be better for human painters to first input all their works into artificial intelligence, then train their own artificial intelligence model. And make a trademark registration for this specific artificial intelligence model. Any one without prior authority permission, will not be able to use this model to create specific art works from this model. Is it one of the solution to solve this problem of arts stolen happenings ?
One thing that would help is that if software creates an image via AI they should list links to images that "inspired" what you are seeing ordered in relevancy for anything down to a fraction of a percent
That's not possible. The model doesn't store images nor anything relevant that would be enable to trace anything back. Here is a simplified order of images for cat: 1. Every image that contained a cat for the AI to know the concept of cat. 2. Every image that did not contain cats for the AI to know the concept of what isn't a cat. That is the inspiration. Both are necessary. So every picture wouldn't exist with one of the other influencing the software. I already hear it: But what about artists? The same exact concept applies. Without knowing what X is not, it can not make a difference to what X is and therefor it needs as many pictures as possible of different things to know different concepts. And it goes through all of those points every time you click create. Millions of commands every millisecond. And yes, some it doesn't touch, for example if you negative prompt something. Let's say it could somehow save the links to what it used - every time an image is created it would leave an inspiration list as text documents with hundreds of millions of links bigger in size than the actual picture. Many of them completely unrelated for the human eye, but could be very important for the AI for some reason. That would be utterly useless for us.
@@vectorhooves7970 "AI can't invent anything", AI is not collaging images together. It learns what an apple looks like by looking at hundreds of images of apples, and how to recreate it. It is not copying the training data whatsoever. The process of creating AI art is no different to how humans create art. The only difference is computers do it sequentially and a lot quicker.
@@vectorhooves7970 We are far from understanding the brain in its complexity, but acting like we're ignorant is disingenuous. And what we are discussing here is not a biological process, it is a simple process of logic gates of how the brain sees an image of something, analyses it, and tries to pick out those patterns again. This is why we see faces in things that aren't faces. Our brain has evolved to spot patterns in faces very easily. We are literally a pattern-recognition machine. So, just admit that you don't know how AI image generation works, as there is no "copying" whatsoever, in fact, training data is deleted once the model is trained, it does not have access to that original data at all from that point.
@@vectorhooves7970 I did not reference the legal implications at all. The only thing I addressed was an incorrect statement about how AI works. So really I have no idea what you are adding to this conversation whatsoever.
@@vectorhooves7970 "Ignoring the larger issues", my guy, I am not here to address every single issue AI causes, I commented in response to a single misconception which was made.
As an artist, I really hope the use of AI is regulated in the future, especially knowing none-artists make money with AI art. it should absolutely always be 'Opt in', but with companies like Meta for example there is no choice even, it is just always "in" as soon as you decide to sign up for their platforms.
If you directly copy work, that is plagiarism. But there is no copywrite on a style. Every subset of art we have from surrealism, to the abstract is all based off someone who did something once, and others did it in a similar style. Imangine if you told people they couldn't do a painting in the style of Picasso, they'd think you're absurd.
@@Syn_Slater There are differences between inspiration, appropriation, and plagiarism. Humans always use what’s come before to create the new; by incorporating their own experiences, ideas, interpretations. If you make art that deliberately looks like someone else’s work, without tour own personal input, I would call it plagiarism.
@@Syn_Slater Picasso: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Meaning, In my point of view, when you have incorporated your influences to a point where they are now an inseparable part of your own unique style.
@@MatsUnden no legal entity defines plagiarism in the way are using it (that might tell you something mats) every plagiarism case that has ever been won was because copying exact works, not styles. Half the music in the 80s sounded exactly like the rest, no one got sued for copying the style unless they copied the exact piece of music. "This sounds like a song nine inch nails would make, quickly Trent Reznor should sue them" said no lawyer ever.
Im a painter and I took all my work of internet back in 2019, also I never even uploaded my best work on internet. I suggest you to do the same especially if you have talent of very few...meaning not many people can do what ur doing.
I'm pretty much pro Machine Learning, and I applaud your decision. I see a good market for you, especially once AI has been proliferated through Social Media, Dataset engineers will hunger for untouched art. You will be able to make quite a buck if you hold out for a decade longer. Love it. More power to you.
So... what is the deal with or how will or how can instagram (and possibly facebook) be stopped since theres reports IG is now scraping all images on their site for AI usage.... and theres NO way to opt out. If you heard there is... its not an option for most users anymore as the supposed hackaround to turn off that option has vanished.
There' no copyright protection for AI generated works. So how do AI users protect their outputs? Given the lack of copyright protection AI image gens are worthless for professionals in a creative industry that relies of copyright licensing revenue. Not even Disney can register AI generated works based on their own IP with the copyright office.
Well any game artist or concept artist.. artists that rely on the money from prints and such.. copyright isn't really needed for these and ai will be pervasive in these feilds in a few years
There is copyright for AI works but only under UK law not under American law which is more respected internationally so just like the artists your AI work is more likely to be stolen online because of US law but if the person is British and operating in the UK you can probably sue You may be able to sue in the US depending on the US judge because any AI work coming out of the UK is copyrighted under UK law and if the person stealing it knows this but is exploiting the difference in law I don't think the judge will like that
(Section 178 (CDPA)). Section 9(3) CDPA provides that the author of a computer-generated work is deemed to be the person "by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken". Who, if anyone, is the author? If we assume that an AI tool has acted sufficiently independently of any human that the identity of the author in a normal sense is unclear, and Section 9(3) may therefore apply, the answer to the question whether copyright can subsist in an AI-generated work depends on whether it is obvious who is the human "by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken." In the short term this is likely to mean whether a human user of the AI tool is the author of works created, or whether it is the original programmer of the AI tool. [See our related article on IP Licensing]
@@ANGEL_BOB_YT There "cannot be an author" under Section 9(3) . That's the problem with it. It was based on a 1980s case where data was generated randomly for a pools process. As mentioned, AI uses a software interface and Navitaire v Easyjet (2004) is the relevant case law. User input is a "method of operation" and the result is a software function (not expression). Thus no copyright. Only human expression is protected by copyright (TRIPS agreement article 9(2))
> *Given the lack of copyright protection AI image gens are worthless for professionals in a creative industry* I mean, a "creative industry" is a wide breadth, so ... say you need textures for a 3d model - it'd be really damn useful to not need licensing hurdles to get textures for whatever you're modeling.
Not digitalising your art is kinda hard in 2023 I reckon, if you exhibit it you have to be strict in not letting people photograph your prints etc… plus how social media plays a big role in getting your work known and building a reputation. I’m an artist an feel mixed about it. Definitely need regulation, but I also use midjourney every day for social media content for my job. I can see why it will be significantly harder to find work as an artist / writer / musician when it’s cheaper, quicker and sometimes more precise to just use AI. Things are about to get weird…
If creativity can be replaced by AI no doubt any other work positions can be replaced I like the idea that AI helps us to learn and do repetitive and dangerous works Not the opposite
Art is born out of the heart and soul of mankind... Currently A.I. is just regurgitating analytics and producing new data. The world is on a whole frontier...where pure originality is the rarest thing on this planet and it's Priceless ❤
@abram730 I can see and agree with what you mean here, but I still think human creation is something special born out of a biological environment. In time, there will be a HUGE distinction between the human artist and the Artificial artist... For instance, an original Picasso could only come from the heart and soul of Picasso regardless of how he interpreted the musings of his creativity!! The subject of creation by artificial intelligence is easily reduced, to copying data and reformatting it. Until Artifical Intelligence can be born with a heart and soul, one built and connected by nature they are incapable of being compared to creating anything at a human capacity!! Their abilities are Artificial (fake). Our abilities are natural (real).
@@1Kind1 "I still think human creation is something special born out of a biological environment." Then why are artists afraid of loosing their jobs? Perhaps you are trying to convince yourself and not me?
AI can't make art. It's like saying it has feelings and is capable of original thought. At best, what it does is remixing. Rather call it an AI Graphical Product.
@@naejin Mimic being the operative word. Never real. And anyone using it will always be plagued by doubt as it isn't really them doing it. I'd rather draw a stick figure myself than ask an AI to "create" a Picasso
nope. what's happening is that AI is demonstrating that the artsy-fartsy claims about art being somehow magically soulful are wrong. art consumers do not actually give a single shit about whether whoever or whatever made the art had a thought while doing it, only the product matters. any perception of the consumer of what the artist may have intended or thought is imaginary, it's entirely inferred from the product and not actually a reflection of the production process.
@@Ass_of_Amalek And what do you think AI was trained on😂 Apparently the creators of it doesn't think so👍 Keep dreaming. Art IS inspired. Even the great Greek philosophers couldn't explain it away, hence the Muses
@@psylentrage the ancient greek philosphers knew nothing compared to me. those guys thought that illness was an imbalance of four humors, and that gods visited earth to assault women in the form of a swan or whatever. "water, fire, air and dirt, F*ing magnets, how do they work?" - aristotle, probably
That's why they are struggling using DVD/CD for distribution of artists products in the past decades. They knew internet/AI will hurt artists& every fields so much but with no better solution yet
Then what about an AI-generated image from copyright-expired images? What if I generate another image from that image over and over? Then who can judge the copyright? by AI again?
Yea....lets automate fun tasks that people actually enjoy working on, so that we all can grind more on boring and soulcrushing labor.....yayyyy Thank you AI
With almost any creative prospect to do with the internet these days, the issue is curatorship, If everyone can make it, then we'll all be making and nobody will be looking, much less trying to sell it. We'll all be creators and we'll care as much about AI 'art' as we would about your mate's kid's fridge drawings.
> *If everyone can make it, then we'll all be making* Silly question, but wouldn't this assume that there aren't people who wouldn't be interested in using it - whether out of principle, or out of lack of interest in the field where it is being used? Perhaps I am taking the statement a bit literally, heh.
There is currently no ethical AI art generators. Even adobe firefly AI has unconsented images in its database, that they expect their paying customers to report (read: moderate for them). If you love any form of entertainment, then you love works that were made by human artists. Spiderverse did not come out of an AI. It came out of human artists.
It's rather unfortunate because though it's painful to admit that any form of Artistry is definitely only for the truly talented people, so of course they have every right to own it, especially original works but with the AI, talentless individuals started to take advantage of it in which ot shouldn't have been to begin with, even from someone like me who doesn't have the talent from art too, hence why I can see it, the temptation is there thats for sure... The only fool proof solution I can think off of this is to never "digitize" your works or something...
Talent is a myth though. All the research shows that nearly anyone can become a master. It simply takes a lifetime of effort. You should give it a try. It's a very affirming process. You'll surprise yourself!
Why is it painful and unfortunate? I'm an artist, there are so many professions that I can't do. And you know what, they are all important to society. Art isn't some thing that's better than anything else and should be envied. It's an aspect of humanity of which there are many equally important aspects.
Not digitalising your art is kinda hard in 2023 I reckon, if you exhibit it you have to be strict in not letting people photograph your prints etc… plus how social media plays a big role in getting your work known and building a reputation. I’m an artist an feel mixed about it. Definitely need regulation, but I also use midjourney every day for social media content for my job. I can see why it will be significantly harder to find work as an artist / writer / musician when it’s cheaper, quicker and sometimes more precise to just use AI. Things are about to get weird…
Anyone can make art, and everyone should make some form of art. Art is not a product to be monetized, it is an expression of your unique perspective that no one else can represent. It doesn't matter if you have a pretty picture at the end of the day, it is a healing process, it makes you know yourself better, it helps you understand why you like the things you like, it improves your memory and your eye for detail, it makes your dreams and life more vibrant.
@@capnbarky2682 Some of us make a living from art. Art is all those things you said but there's nothing wrong with it being monitized. I work in animation. There's a film called the Iron Giant. It was made for a budget far less than a Disney movie, and because of its budget, I think that contributed to Director Brad Bird being able to make a great film. There's another film called the "Thief and the Cobbler" made for purely artistic reasons. Made by Richard Williams, one of the greatest animators who ever lived, of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" fame. Took 30 years and was never finished. It has truly some of the greatest breathtaking animation ever done, and all before computers but had attention been paid to monetizing it, it could have been finished. Disney's Aladdin owes something to that film. It's not a copy and a great film in its own right, but given Thief and the Cobbler was in production for 30 years and many of the artists that worked on Aladdin worked and studied under Richard Williams, some elements from that show up in Aladdin. Most people know Aladdin because despite Disney's lavish budgets, it still had a budget and it was a commercial product. Most beyond animators will never know about the Thief and the Cobbler.
The companies that are running these A.I.s claim that they are not producing copies of art works. If that is true then don't they have to provide evidence of atleast one really truly original work of art done by an A.I. to prove it? I mean think about it, although it may be true that humans learn how to create art by studying other people's work irregardless there are humans who produce genuinely original work.
AI image generation is missleading. Art is creative, its about making your soul visible. A computer could never do that (no, not even given time) and its disgusting that people still defend it. Its theft. Plain and simple. AI advocads are only interested in a quick buck, generating image after image, not bothering ethical implications. There is no "lets try and see this from all sides", this is, for once, a topic thats black and white: Get rid of it. The sooner the better. If you want to do art, pick up a pencil and paper.
SDXL is trained on 100% public domain and/or licensed datasets with opt-in for artists. SDXL is comparable to Midjourney, and vastly superior to Adobe's Firefly. But this "art theft" argument is from a month ago, after all. That's like 100 years in AI progress time.
One possible solution would be to print your art that you intend to make money from, if made digitally to start with, and only upload photos of the print out, maybe with the artist standing next to it, or on a set of a show home. That way you can see what you'd like to buy without being able to scrape the real thing.
I think the idea of an artist in the public imagination is very limited. Like we all make paintings that we sell in galleries. There are artists across society. I work in animation. I need my work online. Say I'm looking for a job and want to apply to Disney. I have to have my work online to show them what I'm capable of before they will hire me. Gone are the days, when you had to send physical media like DVDs to Disney, they won't accept anything but online work. You can't show up to the studio and show your portfolio, gone are the days where Disney would allow anyone who's not an employee show up on their premises. And that's just one of the many many artistic field that need their work online to make a living. By the way, if you stand next to your print out and upload that photo to the internet, that image can easily be used to train the ai. Morever I can take that photo and use ai to recreate whatever part you are covering up by standing by it in less than a second. Since image ai has used billions of other stolen art, photographs, people's medical data, and tons of other stuff, it can imagine what most likely should be there in the same way ChatGPT can generate convincing conversations just based on endlessly guessing what word it expects to come after a word that's been written. Unless you stand and cover the entire image so AI can read none of it, in which case, you aren't posting your printout online for others to see.
The only way for artists to protect their work now is to hide 'products' from AI but the question is who is 'AI' and how does 'AI' go about 'his' or 'her' duties or work.
Yours picture/voice from phone or online also can be mimicked by AI...which mean online fraudulent crime cases/misinformation/cyberwarfare is real thing & will goes rampant in future #good luck
become an artist that can do amazing thing in real time. then film yourself. i know a guy that paints amazing iconic buildings in London with a pen on site, tourists often film and take pictures of him. i know of another that can draw the human figure, incredibly accurately and fast in under 10 minutes with charcoal. so, the performer artist is one avenue to explore. my favourite is a plein-air painter who once painted a live a storm in person ,in real time, got all drenched but the painting was fantastic, it's almost like you could hear the strong wind, debris flying everywhere, bent palm trees and all. these are true artists. because they inspire people (well, me at least)
The way these AI "learns" how to create art by being exposed to them, identifying traits, and then implementing their own rendition of it seems to me like how a person also learns how to be inspired by the art of others. Where do we draw the line on what is considered "inspired by" and "stolen from" ? When a person does an art work, it's not always free of inspiration from other works they're exposed to, but they're typically not accused of "stealing" someone's work just because they make art that incorporate similar styles, design, form, of other artists. This is going to be a difficult issue to deal with or regulate.
Where do we draw the line? It's pretty easy. It's the same line needed in any type of theft. Was permission given? If not, that's theft. No artist has ever said humans can not learn from them. There's actually a time honored tradition that artists learn from those that came before them. Artists have explicitly said they don't want ai learning from their work. Therefore the ai companies are engaged in theft. Permission is key. If someone tells me I can't use something they own, they could give me the stupidest reason why I can't. If I use it, it's theft.
@@DONTTOUCHTHEGRASSIMALLERGIC I don't know. I always thought humans and all animals intrinsically cared about their own species. Now, I'm not so sure about humans... I've had conversations with people with racist views. And I try to get them to see, "Hey, I get you care about your people, that's great, but those people you don't like, they are your people." I don't know where to start with someone who is okay with giving rights to ai at the expense of human rights. There's so many people recently that literally don't care if ai replaces or causes harm to humans. Progress at any costs. I mean, not this guy who started this thread, he may just be unclear what the issue is, but there's a lot of people that just don't care.
The problem is intention. There is no mind, no divergent thinking capacity behind AI-generate art. And, no, AI is not learning the way humans do, not even close. Try reading Eric Larson's book, The Myth Of Artificial Intelligence.
AI does not "identify traits", it associates keywords with pictures. You don't learn this way, by crunching JPGs on a weighted virtual graph, you learn by assimilating structured mental concepts. The way it learns is so far removed from the way we do that I'm surprised it even warrants an explanation, it's like having to explain to someone in the 60s how a computer differs from a humain brain lol. It's like saying that you're the same as a nuclear reactor because you both consume fuel to generate energy. Technically true, but intentionally misleading and ridiculous for anyone who knows anything about humans or nuclear reactors. This belief that AI, an autocorrect tool on steroids, is the same as us in any capacity or is somehow gaining sentience, serves no one but greedy Silicon Valley ghouls looking to eat up entire industries on the back of their own work, under nebulous promises of progress, and the flimsy guise of fair use.
Obviously it`s not the AIs fault...it`s the idiot human programmer designing it this way....to cheat themselves through business & life. Sue the AI companies and get rid of them so we can get back to creating more careers for humans using that beautiful talent of human brush strokes. Of coarse...some AI is important to keep but not this type.
We don't HAVE AI, please stop insisting we do and go look up the definition of AI, including requirements such as a consciousness for example. The question is how can you protect something that by default exists in a maleable state of fair use from being fairly used, and the answer is you can't and aren't supposed to
All art is theft. It takes from what's already there. But copying an artists unique style precisely should be done with consent, since artists don't tend to be wealthy...until they are dead. The phrase " starving artist " exists for a reason. If you don't let artists make a living from their work, soon you won't have any artists to steal from. It will all be retro pictures/styles being copied circa 2033.
_"All art is theft."_ No it isn't. This is a false adage that has been telephoned through the centuries. The original quote in 1892 by W.H Davenport Adams condemned plagiarism. “Great poets imitate and improve, while small poets steal and spoil.”
@@Homeschoolsw6 - No it's not. No more than how anyone else learns' anything; then by that logic theft is how everyone learns.. I literally just gave you the actual source of the 'all artists steal' adage, which itself was never a quote anyone said at all. Good grief.
The ship has sailed, hasn't it? Kind of like entering an event horizon? I really like Michio Kaku's perspective on this. When the processing speed of our working computers begins to transcend orders of magnitude, and the work that may have taken us years to do just days before may take us minutes and seconds instead, where do we go as a society? It seems silly to me that currency in any form would eventually matter, because if all the jobs are run for us, and all our needs are met, what is left of us but to dance as players on a stage of dreams? Hopefully we can all get along and embrace each other.
According to article 21of the constitution of India lock down is amounts to violation of the fundamental rights of the peoples lock down is worst political game. The peoples are suffering from unemployment and poverty need Compensation FBI investigation is necessary through the UNO please protect the peoples in india
If there's one thing for sure is that these ai machines should be destroyed. It shouldn't be here in the first place. Art is a human activity. We can't lose that to a machine who's only job is to make soulless art for human consumption while we, the HUMAN BEINGS waste away on menial jobs.
> *If there's one thing for sure is that these ai machines should be destroyed. It shouldn't be here in the first place.* It's not a physical machine that can be destroyed, it's software - and IMO you not seeing the need for the tech doesn't mean that there aren't people who find a way to incorporate it as a tool, and IMO it doesn't mean we can't find a way for it to have a home as a tool above all.
They said the same about printing presses. 🙄Cause writing was considered somekind of holy human activity. It is just, because you feel a certain way does not make it true. 🤷♂
Next great art: A picture of we bloody Yanks conquering Limeyland to finish the job heroic John Paul Jones started in 1778 by attacking the Limey Port of Whitehaven. 😜 -Dave the Bloody Yank
So, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan taught you nothing. You couldn't even defeat armies that were using bows and arrows and spears. Best you stay home and attend MAGA rallies.
I think that going forward AI art should not use imagery from living artists nor artists whose estates are still viable. With MJ at least it is not necessary to use an artists name to get good imagery. Concepts like ambient occlusion or fluid lines and many, many more are really just the grammar of visual imagery. No artist or group of artists can have ownership of that sort of intangible. Also so long as an image is only being used for personal use(not to be resold)I do not see the harm in using an artists name in a prompt. I am somewhat surprised that professional artists are not using AI as a means to quickly generate ideas. It could and should be used as tool to create points of departure and not be seen as the destination itself.
The problem with artists quickly generating ideas is in the short term, you may benefit. In the long term, you are undermining your profession. And the idea that we can create alongside AI is a flawed one in my opinion. Current artists will have the skill set to use their knowledge to make good ai art, but future artists won't be able to gain that knowledge. They'd be forced to rely on ai to make a living and not gain the knowledge current artists have from the pre ai world. And all that is feeding an ai that would eventually be able to it on its own. People talk about prompt engineers. There's chatgpt. It's not inconceivable that as ai improves, and multiple versions of ai are intergrated together, there would be ai, that can generate prompts for the images based on data gathered about a society's interests and trends sort of like how Netflix knows what movies you enjoy based on data. In a world where ai can do it on its own, it would be inefficient for a human to work alongside an ai. Sure you could do it as a hobby, but if you want to earn a living, a business would prefer the efficiency of ai doing it on its own.
@@jmhorange I do not disagree with what you are saying. But, the djinni is already out of the bottle. Market forces will always cut labor costs to improve it's bottom line. Perhaps artists can by way of lawsuits force AI providers to pay them royalties. Provided they can prove their case.
@@mutineer2639 the genie is only out of the bottle if we let it be so. Nuclear technology exists, cloning exists and yet we don't say it's out of the bottle. We regulate it. Market forces don't dictate anything. Otherwise the US wouldn't exist after the 2008 recession because the market would have had the banks fail and let the system self correct. Which it would have but at the expense of the US. There's all kinds of rules that don't allow the market to dictate things. And governments are interested in regulating this and they've raised concerns with compensation for artists which AI people couldn't answer. And artists are filling lawsuits, and also companies. Getty images has a lawsuit. As an artist, my primary concern is not if AI will replace artists. it's important but it's part of a larger issue. Every one of us has been generating data for the past 30 years. That vast trove of info should not be used by AI in ways we don't want and could harm us in ways we can't imagine today. What happens to creative people with AI today and how we handle it will set a precedent for what AI will be allowed to do tomorrow with humanity's data. And when I say ai, I mean AI companies, because it's a small few that are deciding the future for all of us.
@@jmhorange We're talking about a technology that exists digitally, who cannot be so easily controlled because the code powering it can be distributed freely in ways physical technologies, and processes like cloning cannot.
Should I say goos bye work and there will be a lot of people who don't have a job? Will we be like the Chinese Republic youngsters "better stay in the bedroom, even if I struggle, it will not take me everywhere, abd why should I live?" Interesting topic thank you to BBC. I worked for outsourcing company and yes I am afraid of the wild development of AI. Good day
So why is art work considered copyright material but lines and shapes aren't? If AI cannot use public information to train its model, then why can human use public information to train their brains to draw or why can camera/software engineers use public information to train/program their tools to perform functions of drawing (for example photography captures light using basic apeture/shutter knowledge public to all)
@@AllTimeNoobie no one invented english duh, it just shaped itself from previous languages and previous languages and previous sounds, what a shit comparison is this lmao no one has invented it or made it up (it'd be different if it were a conlang aka a language made up by someone, if an AI were to copy from a conlang it'd be as disrespectful as when it copies artists/writers/creators etc)
If AI copies as exsisting artwork from an living artist, the creator of this AI meaning its owner/financial beneficairy is liable to damages on the copyright infringment .
I just think it's funny how nobody had a problem with AI when they thought it would only replace the jobs of mathematicians, engineers and maybe coders etc... but the moment it's artists, musicians, designers, writers, and teachers.. everyone loses their minds. It's just a tool. Same as it always has been. If the tool makes your job obsolete.. time to well.. I guess learning to code is out now.
Incorrect, when predictions were made creatives would be last to be replaced by ai, ai was in no position to replace anyone at the time. So there was no reason for any industry, whether they were predicted to be first or last to get upset and protest. Why waste time and resources on a hypothetical future that may or may not come true? Now that it's creative people's jobs, people are paying attention. It could have been any field first and people would naturally start paying attention to ai and want regulations around the new tech that exists in the present. There's no double standard.
A tool that requires the very outputs it is relying on in order to displace. That's called a parasite by definition. Tools that create progress do so by creating value, not by appropriating it.
I think the Adobe Firefly way of using licensed artwork and images is probably the best way forward which needs to be worked out soon because I do really like ai as a creative tool and would hate for it to be illegal or something. It’s a potential minefield though and there’s usually two creative types, the people who have ideas but can’t always make them happen and then there’s the people who make the ideas happen for other people.I think ai is going to take work away from the latter because the idea people won’t need anyone else to make their ideas come to life. Scary but mind blowing at the same time…
@@notmyrealaccount8564 The problem is it would be cost prohibitive for them to ask artists for permission. They wouldn't be able to make a profit to get the billions and billions of data to train the data sets. The set of artists that would agree to it, would be a subset of the artists they currently have. And they'd have to pay the artists a decent rate, but even at a terrible rate, we are talking billions upon billions upon billions of data, which means even at a terrible rate, that's billions and billions of dollars allocated to artists (And not just artist, companies. Getty images is suing these AI models for consuming their content.). It already costs a lot of money to just run these ai models with millions of people entering prompts. Which is why they didn't ask for permission to eliminate the enormous costs of paying artists. The truth is their business model should never have existed because it's unprofitable if done ethically, but now that it does, and in an unethical form, they are hoping people see it as a minor thing and the backlash dies down so they can move forward with their business model and make a profit from it.
@@jmhorange I don’t know I think they could find a way, I suspect now it’s been done it will only become cheaper and faster especially if ai is used to help train other models. I think artists will come around though as they have tended to overvalue themselves before and found out the hard way that they were not as valuable as they thought. I think as long as there’s an opportunity to earn some money from their work, there’s always going to be artists that will be happy to contribute and then there’s usually some other way to earn money that pops up after a period of adjustment like different subscription models or ways for people to support their work.
@@notmyrealaccount8564 I don't know what artists you hang around with but artists tend to undervalue themselves, that's my pet peeve, I've lead groups of artists to get compensated for their work at studios. People in general don't like to rock the boat, and without a union, they often look to the business to compensate them fairly. Regardless, let's say artists demand too much and even accept a reduced price. Companies would have to be in this category too since their work is in the training data. And non artists, because things like medical data has appeared in the training sets. All these groups would have to be paid. I don't think you grasp how much data the AI needs to work. They could pay pennies on the dollar and the cost would be too much to build a profitable business on. The choice to not get permission was an intentional one, not some mistake. A non profit collected the data which was fine, as they couldn't use it for profit. And then a for profit company came and used that data which they would not be able to collect without permission as a for profit company to train their AI. At one point they said they would never do the same thing with music and listed the ethical issues artists have raised in deciding not to. Now they are doing music but it proves they knew it was unethical to collect artists work without permission. And yet they chose to move forward. Better to ask forgiveness than permission and they are hoping people like you forgive them and see the issue of permission as a minor issue.
It'll be a sad time when human creativity is no longer needed.
This also goes beyond art. Sure the idea of being able to AI generate the perfect song, movie, dance video, cartoon, book, etc, in a few decades time might be cool now but we'll lose passion for such things very quickly.
Humans are fundamentally lazy, it wouldn't be surprising to find humanity controlled by AI.
Not only artists, everybody and every system
We’re losing the meaning of a singular perspective. Like- I look at art to see someone’s point of view, or to hear their story. Blending everyone’s work into a meaningless slurry, into just empty style and aesthetic. Like - it’s the human-to-human interaction that makes art fun and meaningful. It’s horrifying to lose that.
We are the Borg.
I hope there will be laws to protect artists.
It's maddening that their great creations are being exploited by billion dollar tech corps.
If there were no people using these big corporation's ai programs we wouldn't have this problem. It is the users not the corporations....
@@vllad74it's the companies
stealing is wrong....unless it creates more money
@@bunnywar This a bit like the egg and the chicken and which one is the first. I know what you mean but lets not forget that the initial testing of all these platforms was done by the users for free. Users who knew that all the data these programs used was stolen...And they did it anyway...
Perhaps we should ban cars to protect buggy makers?
AI is getting out of control. I remember studying the potential effects of AI years ago at University, was terrified then and terrified now. Yes if used properly then it can have significant benefits. However, it’s being misused in the most disruptive way possible. Especially when it comes to art, literature, music etc….
It’s so over
I'm currently studying to be a concept artist and I'm fuming that ai generated images have gotten this far.
It shouldn't even be an argument they have stolen artists work, and profited off of it.
Ridiculous that the current court bs going on surrounding it is taking so logn
Thanks for covering this! Artists are the canaries in the coalmine for this type of scraping: is it really fair for companies to be able to use your child's prom pictures or school pictures posted on Facebook to train a ML image [re]generator?
Is it fair to use people's faces posted on the web to train facial recognition software? So that it's easier to track them accross video feeds across the world?
so where do artist take their inspiration from? they probably got their own style based on a collection of style and influence, that's also what AI is doing.
@@vinchino So when do AI have inspiration?
@@vinchino You are going off on a tangent, the issue has nothing to do with whether ai is inspired the same way humans are inspired. That's a separate philosophical argument. It's an interesting philosophical question whether or not ai learns like humans, but it doesn't pertain to the issue.
The issue at the hand is whether ai companies have permission to train their ai on artists' works. They don't. Artists have explicitly said they don't want ai training from their work. They are okay with humans training from their work, it's actually a time honored tradition to allow artists to learn from other artists.
As long as the ai companies don't have permission to use artists' work in the training set, what they are engaged in is theft. This is why artists and companies like Getty images, which do get permission from artists to use their work are upset by what the ai companies have done. It's why politicians have asked if the ai has compensated artists and musicians for their work, when they've grilled ai people in congress and parliaments around the world.
@@vinchino Do yourself a favor and don't talk about things you've no understanding of like for example ML (machine learning)
@vinchino their own style evolves from inspiration from others but each artist will bring their unique spin on things and move past copying.
Stop justifying art theft.
I feel that there are less and less artist will go a long way to make art if this AI go rampant. Protect the artist.
No. Adobe Firefly never had an opt-out option, at the same time, you could find the work of artists that never gave consent in their dataset.
Yes, I see images from different artists with different styles uploaded by the same uploader XD
I don’t think the company’s have even opted out anyone that requested yet either.
They consented with the terms that Adobe can use their work for any purpose regarding development of their software long long ago. And there have been warnings and beggings of lawyers about to read the terms of use for years now.
It is just, that people care a shit about such things until they feel the consequences. 🤷♂ In Germany we say "TJA!"
Adobe firefly works on non copyrighted images
@@mirm0n Wrong
I haven't been presented with a single good argument as to why AI art should be "here to stay." Just because the Big Data approach to training AI can generate imagery doesn't mean we need it to do so.
It's cheaper,faster and cuts out the middleman to generate art assets for businesses and individuals.
@@TomNook. So AI-generated imagery is freak'n convenient and cheap. I can't get past the fact that, for generations, AI wasn't necessary to get the work done. And there are a lot of artists and designers who would still like to do the work. There isn't any argument as why AI-generated art is necessary or should be used.
it's here to stay because it's about to become highly commercially viable.
@@amorphix7790 You don't understand the nature of my objection. The benefits of automating unpleasant, uninteresting work is not at issue. AI "art" isn't art. There is no intention behind it, no mind creating anything, no creativity involved at all. It's simply an example of the big-data approach to machine learning, this time for the purpose of putting creative people out of work. The problem is that actual creativity, the product of people who have pronounced divergent thinking capacity, is being treated as though it has no value. Talentless geeks and others can use big-data machine learning as a crutch to get around employing creative human minds.
@@HandgunSafe if their work can be easily replaced by talentless geeks then are they even more talentless?
This, and the spread of false information, is what scares me most with AI. It frightens me that AI might kill human creativity.
Humans are not very creative, so it isn't much of a loss.
Protect artist ❤❤
yep, take an action pls
Yes protect artists who use Ai from the witch hunt
@@jamessderbyArrest and imprison "artists" who use AI. Tech Bros are subhuman cancer.
Step 1: Scrap the Internet for content, copyrighted or not, without credit or consent.
Step 2: Claim that the data you stole, and base your entire commercial product on without compensation, was so large it would be inconvenient to respect copyright and would "hinder progress".
Step 3: Rush to exploit the industries you are introducing AI to before regulations can take place, claiming it's democratizing art and improving productivity, all the while trying to cut out the middle man who's work you stole that makes your product possible, when AI only really benefits CEOs, and those at the top.
Step 4: Profit.
It's not that hard, all artists want is their consent to be respected, their work to be credited, and their time compensated. Just like any other work. People are so used to getting "free" art, that they think there is no effort in creating it, and that those that create it are entitled with time, and so shouldn't be compensated for their effort. If you think prompting (glorified google search really) is act of creation, you're just telling me you never bothered lifting a pencil in your life. I'll never understand the desire to say "I made this" and feel proud of it, when you've let something or someone else do it for you. Regardless if you want to call AI/ML art or not, it doesn't matter, when its creation depends completely on corrupted seed of theft. It doesn't matter how good the meal the chef makes is, if he stole all the ingredients from nearby stores to make it.
I'm so tired.
I'm tired of hearing about prompt engineers and how artists need to learn that. There's ChatGPT and a plethora of ai systems that aren't covered in the news. All those talking about the skill involved prompt engineering can't even grasp that these technologies will be combined in ways that will get rid of new jobs created by ai like prompt engineering. If a human isn't needed to create art, but types text into image ai, there's no reason a Chatgpt like program add on can't type in the text. It's going to bring alot of harm a lot of people, across many aspects of our society. And the sad part will be, it won't be ai replacing humans, it'll be ai that's stolen countless human data that represents our vast number of cultures to function, that will channel massive profits into the hands of a few at the expense of humanity. And people actively encourage others to help contribute to this and quit protesting, all in the name of progress at any costs. If humanity loses, well that's just how evolution is supposed to go.
That's wrong though. AI companies weren't idiots in the EU at least. They made the laws in 2019 and LAION started as soon as Germany adopted those laws itself.
So you need to add -
Step 0: Have universities convince politicians to create a machine learning friendly environment, with the real concern that without AI development centered in Europe, they will again be left behind the US.
@@minyaw1234 Is that how you explain data loundering? Sure, let me fix that for you.
Step 0: Create a non-profit "research" based company that scrapes the internet, who is allowed the **exception** of scraping for that same and only purpose, then use your other company to use the research data from the first company for commercial use, keeping them separate to avoid the law and use loopholes.
There. I'm done here.
@@VengefulEggroll
Problem for you - even if you think that 60c of the German copyright law doesn't apply and somehow can prove the supposed influence Stability has over LAION - LAION uses common crawl to scrape images, which supports the machine readable opt out in 44b of the German copyright law for machine learning for commercial purposes.
So even if it is found to not be a research institute, which mind you, it is - but even if that wasn't the case, it was acting according the rules for commercial use to begin with.
@@minyaw1234 First when did German law become unable to be adapted to new issues in society and when did German law become the rule the world must follow. Pay attention to the news. The US and the EU and countries around the world are looking into ways to regulate this new tech. AI companies are asking for governments to lay out rules for this new tech. You can say German law allows ai companies to take data without permission from the owners of that data. But I've seen politicians in hearings ask AI company CEOs "Since the ai depends on artist's work, why aren't artists being compensated by the ai companies?"
Why would politicians who makes the laws ask that question if what AI companies are doing is settled law? And why would AI CEO's stumble over the question instead of saying, "Well according to German copyright law, we have every right to do so."
What's infuriating is that artists are having to potentially pay extra for protection instead of the other way around where these businesses that already make billions of dollars aren't required to pay people to use their images to add to their AI learning databases. And of course this extends to written language, too. I'm curious how Disney is watching this. They're notoriously litigious and you'd think they'd be all over AI companies for scraping their intellectual property. Or, maybe AI companies KNEW they'd be in trouble so excluded Disney from their data scraping? Anyone know?
Disney are using ai
How much do you owe to Disney for copyright infringement as you brain has a copy of their movies that you can use to make derivative work? Art we view is training data.
@@abram730 Our brains don't store pixel perfect copies of billions of images, and our hands can't reproduce pixel perfect versions of the images in our heads. The process of synthesis for producing an art piece is fundamentally different to a computer producing an image from a prompt. Stop being deliberately obtuse.
@@Sebastian_Terrazas AI doesn't store pixel perfect copies of billions of images, and can't reproduce pixel perfect versions of the images. The process of synthesis for producing an art piece is not fundamentally different to a human producing an image.
Stop pretending that things you make up in your head are reality.
@@abram730 So what you're saying is that the AI itself is the artist, right? If the process of AI generating an image is not different than that of a human producing an art piece, then it still means that the people writing the prompts are not artists.
EDIT:typo
This is why I took my art offline 12 years ago. I found someone posting my art as theirs on Instagram…
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still better than somebody stealing somebody else's photos and videos to use or catfish scams, which is super common. in fact, it's probably currently being automated by AI.
Im a pixel artist for a couple mmos. And quite often i see people claiming they made my work.. if a large company used it for a commercial product like an ai i would be rather annoyed.
It's like some groups of elite got bored and let AI move haywire in the world and having fun out of that outcomes by eating a bucket of popcorn.
ai art is like saying "i wanna cook some food at home" but you order mcdonalds claiming its yours.
Copyright law absolutely protects Artists from having their works used to form AI, without the Artist's permission.
If an AI programmer uses copyrighted material, without permission, to train their AI they are breaking the law.
I will guarantee this has already been done. Those creating AI need to show the sources they have used to build the intelligence within.
How can you protect against ai, it literally combine all the past work into one, so know one can say this is 100% his art
@@xdxxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdx8578 No one
How would this be any different from a person looking at a piece of artwork and taking inspiration or mimicking the style.
where exactly the law is being broken ? this narrative is the rant of parasites, pseudo artist who never made it on their own nor would they ever be, claiming now its own success is being stollen by AI
Did you even watch the video?? 😆 It's all clearly explained in fairly simple words and examples.
Putting actual artist’s name as prompt is what make these AIs so derivative and exploitative
According to the dictionary definition, “art” is: “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.”
The key word for me in that definition is “human”. For all its possible technical accomplishment, AI art lacks the *human* and is, in that sense, not creating art but *replicating* art. For these reasons, AI art will never have the emotive power of human art.
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nope. what's happening is that AI is demonstrating that the artsy-fartsy claims about art being somehow magically soulful are wrong. art consumers do not actually give a single shit about whether whoever or whatever made the art had a thought while doing it, only the product matters. any perception of the consumer of what the artist may have intended or thought is imaginary, it's entirely inferred from the product and not actually a reflection of the production process. if AI makes the same artwork as a human (yes, I know it's not quite that good yet), it makes absolutely no difference to the consumer which is which.
@@Ass_of_AmalekAnd when ai comes for your job because consumers don't care how your job is accomplished, just remember artists won't be there to help you.
@@Ass_of_Amalek Who said anything about art being “magically soulful”? (Incidentally, the best art *is* magic *and* soulful.) I simply said AI “art” will never trump human art, quite simply because AI “art” isn’t itself genuinely creative and is simply parasitical, feeding off what has been created by humans. Seethe.
If they argue that AI learn like a human does, that means they create like human does, therefore prompters could not really say that they are the artist at all, rather they are at most the commissioner or Art director for the AI “art”, which means they can not have the copyright over the artwork, if they argue that AI doesn’t learn like human does, then the AI companies are just stealing from artist, which is violating copyright, either way AI “art” violates copyright law. People who defend AI art theft wants to also be called “AI Artist” and own the copyright of those “art”, they want to have their cake and eat it to.
Game over.
Thank you for playing.
Is it possible for an artist who is an influencer to be brave enough to speak out more?
Did he just wake up when he made this video
I have some opinions: If somehow human works will be stolen and used to train artificial intelligence, Would it be better for human painters to first input all their works into artificial intelligence, then train their own artificial intelligence model. And make a trademark registration for this specific artificial intelligence model. Any one without prior authority permission, will not be able to use this model to create specific art works from this model. Is it one of the solution to solve this problem of arts stolen happenings ?
One thing that would help is that if software creates an image via AI they should list links to images that "inspired" what you are seeing ordered in relevancy for anything down to a fraction of a percent
That's not possible. The model doesn't store images nor anything relevant that would be enable to trace anything back.
Here is a simplified order of images for cat:
1. Every image that contained a cat for the AI to know the concept of cat.
2. Every image that did not contain cats for the AI to know the concept of what isn't a cat.
That is the inspiration. Both are necessary. So every picture wouldn't exist with one of the other influencing the software. I already hear it: But what about artists? The same exact concept applies. Without knowing what X is not, it can not make a difference to what X is and therefor it needs as many pictures as possible of different things to know different concepts. And it goes through all of those points every time you click create. Millions of commands every millisecond. And yes, some it doesn't touch, for example if you negative prompt something.
Let's say it could somehow save the links to what it used - every time an image is created it would leave an inspiration list as text documents with hundreds of millions of links bigger in size than the actual picture. Many of them completely unrelated for the human eye, but could be very important for the AI for some reason. That would be utterly useless for us.
@@vectorhooves7970 "AI can't invent anything", AI is not collaging images together. It learns what an apple looks like by looking at hundreds of images of apples, and how to recreate it. It is not copying the training data whatsoever. The process of creating AI art is no different to how humans create art. The only difference is computers do it sequentially and a lot quicker.
@@vectorhooves7970 We are far from understanding the brain in its complexity, but acting like we're ignorant is disingenuous.
And what we are discussing here is not a biological process, it is a simple process of logic gates of how the brain sees an image of something, analyses it, and tries to pick out those patterns again.
This is why we see faces in things that aren't faces. Our brain has evolved to spot patterns in faces very easily.
We are literally a pattern-recognition machine.
So, just admit that you don't know how AI image generation works, as there is no "copying" whatsoever, in fact, training data is deleted once the model is trained, it does not have access to that original data at all from that point.
@@vectorhooves7970 I did not reference the legal implications at all. The only thing I addressed was an incorrect statement about how AI works. So really I have no idea what you are adding to this conversation whatsoever.
@@vectorhooves7970 "Ignoring the larger issues", my guy, I am not here to address every single issue AI causes, I commented in response to a single misconception which was made.
We need a new international copyright law for atrists to protect from these IA
As an artist, I really hope the use of AI is regulated in the future, especially knowing none-artists make money with AI art. it should absolutely always be 'Opt in', but with companies like Meta for example there is no choice even, it is just always "in" as soon as you decide to sign up for their platforms.
If a human would create something so similar it would be called ‘plagiarism’. Which is the same as stealing someone else’s work.
Is AI generated pictures/sounds , not art.
If you directly copy work, that is plagiarism. But there is no copywrite on a style. Every subset of art we have from surrealism, to the abstract is all based off someone who did something once, and others did it in a similar style.
Imangine if you told people they couldn't do a painting in the style of Picasso, they'd think you're absurd.
@@Syn_Slater There are differences between inspiration, appropriation, and plagiarism. Humans always use what’s come before to create the new; by incorporating their own experiences, ideas, interpretations. If you make art that deliberately looks like someone else’s work, without tour own personal input, I would call it plagiarism.
@@Syn_Slater Picasso: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
Meaning, In my point of view, when you have incorporated your influences to a point where they are now an inseparable part of your own unique style.
@@MatsUnden no legal entity defines plagiarism in the way are using it (that might tell you something mats) every plagiarism case that has ever been won was because copying exact works, not styles. Half the music in the 80s sounded exactly like the rest, no one got sued for copying the style unless they copied the exact piece of music. "This sounds like a song nine inch nails would make, quickly Trent Reznor should sue them" said no lawyer ever.
Im a painter and I took all my work of internet back in 2019, also I never even uploaded my best work on internet. I suggest you to do the same especially if you have talent of very few...meaning not many people can do what ur doing.
I'm pretty much pro Machine Learning, and I applaud your decision. I see a good market for you, especially once AI has been proliferated through Social Media, Dataset engineers will hunger for untouched art. You will be able to make quite a buck if you hold out for a decade longer.
Love it. More power to you.
@@minyaw1234disgusting
There's actually a system coming out called Engraive that can help artist protect their work or actually make money from AI using their work!
This sounds super interesting - you got any more info you wouldn’t mind sharing? I’m trying to find any way to protect my art 😅
Training data needs to be licensed from consenting creators or the public domain. Simple as that.
Favorite AI author: Nobody Favorite AI musician: Nobody Favorite AI artist: Nobody
very strange that if I or anyone else uploads their art it goes into their system yet I can't find my own drawings using a reverse image search
So... what is the deal with or how will or how can instagram (and possibly facebook) be stopped since theres reports IG is now scraping all images on their site for AI usage.... and theres NO way to opt out. If you heard there is... its not an option for most users anymore as the supposed hackaround to turn off that option has vanished.
There' no copyright protection for AI generated works. So how do AI users protect their outputs? Given the lack of copyright protection AI image gens are worthless for professionals in a creative industry that relies of copyright licensing revenue. Not even Disney can register AI generated works based on their own IP with the copyright office.
Well any game artist or concept artist.. artists that rely on the money from prints and such.. copyright isn't really needed for these and ai will be pervasive in these feilds in a few years
There is copyright for AI works but only under UK law not under American law which is more respected internationally so just like the artists your AI work is more likely to be stolen online because of US law but if the person is British and operating in the UK you can probably sue You may be able to sue in the US depending on the US judge because any AI work coming out of the UK is copyrighted under UK law and if the person stealing it knows this but is exploiting the difference in law I don't think the judge will like that
(Section 178 (CDPA)). Section 9(3) CDPA provides that the author of a computer-generated work is deemed to be the person "by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken".
Who, if anyone, is the author?
If we assume that an AI tool has acted sufficiently independently of any human that the identity of the author in a normal sense is unclear, and Section 9(3) may therefore apply, the answer to the question whether copyright can subsist in an AI-generated work depends on whether it is obvious who is the human "by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken." In the short term this is likely to mean whether a human user of the AI tool is the author of works created, or whether it is the original programmer of the AI tool. [See our related article on IP Licensing]
@@ANGEL_BOB_YT There "cannot be an author" under Section 9(3) . That's the problem with it. It was based on a 1980s case where data was generated randomly for a pools process. As mentioned, AI uses a software interface and Navitaire v Easyjet (2004) is the relevant case law. User input is a "method of operation" and the result is a software function (not expression). Thus no copyright. Only human expression is protected by copyright (TRIPS agreement article 9(2))
> *Given the lack of copyright protection AI image gens are worthless for professionals in a creative industry*
I mean, a "creative industry" is a wide breadth, so ... say you need textures for a 3d model - it'd be really damn useful to not need licensing hurdles to get textures for whatever you're modeling.
Not digitalising your art is kinda hard in 2023 I reckon, if you exhibit it you have to be strict in not letting people photograph your prints etc… plus how social media plays a big role in getting your work known and building a reputation. I’m an artist an feel mixed about it. Definitely need regulation, but I also use midjourney every day for social media content for my job. I can see why it will be significantly harder to find work as an artist / writer / musician when it’s cheaper, quicker and sometimes more precise to just use AI.
Things are about to get weird…
Is time back into handmade..not use online too much
If creativity can be replaced by AI no doubt any other work positions can be replaced
I like the idea that AI helps us to learn and do repetitive and dangerous works
Not the opposite
Ban all AI but only allow it in Medicine. Done and done
Art is born out of the heart and soul of mankind... Currently A.I. is just regurgitating analytics and producing new data. The world is on a whole frontier...where pure originality is the rarest thing on this planet and it's Priceless ❤
They win art contests because they are better than human artists.
Picasso: “Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
@abram730 I can see and agree with what you mean here, but I still think human creation is something special born out of a biological environment. In time, there will be a HUGE distinction between the human artist and the Artificial artist... For instance, an original Picasso could only come from the heart and soul of Picasso regardless of how he interpreted the musings of his creativity!! The subject of creation by artificial intelligence is easily reduced, to copying data and reformatting it. Until Artifical Intelligence can be born with a heart and soul, one built and connected by nature they are incapable of being compared to creating anything at a human capacity!! Their abilities are Artificial (fake). Our abilities are natural (real).
@@1Kind1 "I still think human creation is something special born out of a biological environment."
Then why are artists afraid of loosing their jobs? Perhaps you are trying to convince yourself and not me?
Just expressing my thoughts...no need to convince you of them!!
@@abram730 AI will never replace humans
AI can't make art. It's like saying it has feelings and is capable of original thought. At best, what it does is remixing. Rather call it an AI Graphical Product.
Give it time, and AI will be able to mimic emotion & sincerity. If you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.
@@naejin Mimic being the operative word. Never real. And anyone using it will always be plagued by doubt as it isn't really them doing it. I'd rather draw a stick figure myself than ask an AI to "create" a Picasso
nope. what's happening is that AI is demonstrating that the artsy-fartsy claims about art being somehow magically soulful are wrong. art consumers do not actually give a single shit about whether whoever or whatever made the art had a thought while doing it, only the product matters. any perception of the consumer of what the artist may have intended or thought is imaginary, it's entirely inferred from the product and not actually a reflection of the production process.
@@Ass_of_Amalek And what do you think AI was trained on😂 Apparently the creators of it doesn't think so👍 Keep dreaming. Art IS inspired. Even the great Greek philosophers couldn't explain it away, hence the Muses
@@psylentrage the ancient greek philosphers knew nothing compared to me. those guys thought that illness was an imbalance of four humors, and that gods visited earth to assault women in the form of a swan or whatever.
"water, fire, air and dirt, F*ing magnets, how do they work?" - aristotle, probably
The rotating still image at 4:35 and other parts is so annoying. Probably there to hold viewer interest but it makes me almost seasick.
Sue Ai
If their training so hard then why do people have extra arms and legs but their face is always fine
They said AI will creats more job in future but what kind of job can be replaced with another when AI took it. Where is the soul and artist touch?
I would like to see BBC JAPAN pick up on this.
That's why they are struggling using DVD/CD for distribution of artists products in the past decades. They knew internet/AI will hurt artists& every fields so much but with no better solution yet
Then what about an AI-generated image from copyright-expired images? What if I generate another image from that image over and over? Then who can judge the copyright? by AI again?
It's nice what they are looking with glaze, but it looks ugly on that comparison image.. the face is all messed up
Yea....lets automate fun tasks that people actually enjoy working on, so that we all can grind more on boring and soulcrushing labor.....yayyyy
Thank you AI
With almost any creative prospect to do with the internet these days, the issue is curatorship, If everyone can make it, then we'll all be making and nobody will be looking, much less trying to sell it. We'll all be creators and we'll care as much about AI 'art' as we would about your mate's kid's fridge drawings.
> *If everyone can make it, then we'll all be making*
Silly question, but wouldn't this assume that there aren't people who wouldn't be interested in using it - whether out of principle, or out of lack of interest in the field where it is being used? Perhaps I am taking the statement a bit literally, heh.
Let's see what happens
What If you train a dataset based on your own artwork instead? I know some artists did
That’s an example of an artist using ai art as a tool.
It’s their work and their choice soo no repercussions I assume
What if you stop grooming students in school, groomer? And stop forcing your filth on us?
Sadly Glaze can literally be removed by 16 lines of code.
Get off your computer's people, go outside and enjoy your life
There is currently no ethical AI art generators. Even adobe firefly AI has unconsented images in its database, that they expect their paying customers to report (read: moderate for them). If you love any form of entertainment, then you love works that were made by human artists. Spiderverse did not come out of an AI. It came out of human artists.
Great Video!!
Absolutly true
It's rather unfortunate because though it's painful to admit that any form of Artistry is definitely only for the truly talented people, so of course they have every right to own it, especially original works but with the AI, talentless individuals started to take advantage of it in which ot shouldn't have been to begin with, even from someone like me who doesn't have the talent from art too, hence why I can see it, the temptation is there thats for sure...
The only fool proof solution I can think off of this is to never "digitize" your works or something...
Talent is a myth though. All the research shows that nearly anyone can become a master. It simply takes a lifetime of effort. You should give it a try. It's a very affirming process. You'll surprise yourself!
Why is it painful and unfortunate? I'm an artist, there are so many professions that I can't do. And you know what, they are all important to society. Art isn't some thing that's better than anything else and should be envied. It's an aspect of humanity of which there are many equally important aspects.
Not digitalising your art is kinda hard in 2023 I reckon, if you exhibit it you have to be strict in not letting people photograph your prints etc… plus how social media plays a big role in getting your work known and building a reputation. I’m an artist an feel mixed about it. Definitely need regulation, but I also use midjourney every day for social media content for my job. I can see why it will be significantly harder to find work as an artist / writer / musician when it’s cheaper, quicker and sometimes more precise to just use AI.
Things are about to get weird…
Anyone can make art, and everyone should make some form of art. Art is not a product to be monetized, it is an expression of your unique perspective that no one else can represent. It doesn't matter if you have a pretty picture at the end of the day, it is a healing process, it makes you know yourself better, it helps you understand why you like the things you like, it improves your memory and your eye for detail, it makes your dreams and life more vibrant.
@@capnbarky2682 Some of us make a living from art. Art is all those things you said but there's nothing wrong with it being monitized. I work in animation. There's a film called the Iron Giant. It was made for a budget far less than a Disney movie, and because of its budget, I think that contributed to Director Brad Bird being able to make a great film. There's another film called the "Thief and the Cobbler" made for purely artistic reasons. Made by Richard Williams, one of the greatest animators who ever lived, of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" fame. Took 30 years and was never finished. It has truly some of the greatest breathtaking animation ever done, and all before computers but had attention been paid to monetizing it, it could have been finished. Disney's Aladdin owes something to that film. It's not a copy and a great film in its own right, but given Thief and the Cobbler was in production for 30 years and many of the artists that worked on Aladdin worked and studied under Richard Williams, some elements from that show up in Aladdin. Most people know Aladdin because despite Disney's lavish budgets, it still had a budget and it was a commercial product. Most beyond animators will never know about the Thief and the Cobbler.
Does this include party video creators.
The companies that are running these A.I.s claim that they are not producing copies of art works. If that is true then don't they have to provide evidence of atleast one really truly original work of art done by an A.I. to prove it? I mean think about it, although it may be true that humans learn how to create art by studying other people's work irregardless there are humans who produce genuinely original work.
AI image generation is missleading. Art is creative, its about making your soul visible. A computer could never do that (no, not even given time) and its disgusting that people still defend it. Its theft. Plain and simple. AI advocads are only interested in a quick buck, generating image after image, not bothering ethical implications. There is no "lets try and see this from all sides", this is, for once, a topic thats black and white: Get rid of it. The sooner the better. If you want to do art, pick up a pencil and paper.
It seems like art is a living retrospective agenda from the ai Alien overlords from the future.
Okay 👍 it....
SDXL is trained on 100% public domain and/or licensed datasets with opt-in for artists. SDXL is comparable to Midjourney, and vastly superior to Adobe's Firefly. But this "art theft" argument is from a month ago, after all. That's like 100 years in AI progress time.
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To solve the problem please use my sue gpt for infringing my invention and release the real ai that assist ppl not replace them thank u
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One possible solution would be to print your art that you intend to make money from, if made digitally to start with, and only upload photos of the print out, maybe with the artist standing next to it, or on a set of a show home. That way you can see what you'd like to buy without being able to scrape the real thing.
I think the idea of an artist in the public imagination is very limited. Like we all make paintings that we sell in galleries. There are artists across society. I work in animation. I need my work online. Say I'm looking for a job and want to apply to Disney. I have to have my work online to show them what I'm capable of before they will hire me. Gone are the days, when you had to send physical media like DVDs to Disney, they won't accept anything but online work. You can't show up to the studio and show your portfolio, gone are the days where Disney would allow anyone who's not an employee show up on their premises. And that's just one of the many many artistic field that need their work online to make a living.
By the way, if you stand next to your print out and upload that photo to the internet, that image can easily be used to train the ai. Morever I can take that photo and use ai to recreate whatever part you are covering up by standing by it in less than a second. Since image ai has used billions of other stolen art, photographs, people's medical data, and tons of other stuff, it can imagine what most likely should be there in the same way ChatGPT can generate convincing conversations just based on endlessly guessing what word it expects to come after a word that's been written. Unless you stand and cover the entire image so AI can read none of it, in which case, you aren't posting your printout online for others to see.
Congrats
IA artist is literally aritifcial steal plagirism if they are taking the art of someone else
The only way for artists to protect their work now is to hide 'products' from AI but the question is who is 'AI' and how does 'AI' go about 'his' or 'her' duties or work.
99% of artists use Adobe products, which is online only. You can bet the house they are using all those projects to feed on.
Yours picture/voice from phone or online also can be mimicked by AI...which mean online fraudulent crime cases/misinformation/cyberwarfare is real thing & will goes rampant in future
#good luck
become an artist that can do amazing thing in real time. then film yourself. i know a guy that paints amazing iconic buildings in London with a pen on site, tourists often film and take pictures of him. i know of another that can draw the human figure, incredibly accurately and fast in under 10 minutes with charcoal. so, the performer artist is one avenue to explore. my favourite is a plein-air painter who once painted a live a storm in person ,in real time, got all drenched but the painting was fantastic, it's almost like you could hear the strong wind, debris flying everywhere, bent palm trees and all. these are true artists. because they inspire people (well, me at least)
Art is freedom ❤
Except when it's slavery. Labor without compensation...
I don't see Glaze as a solution, but as an enabler to extend the reach of AI stolen art variations.
The way these AI "learns" how to create art by being exposed to them, identifying traits, and then implementing their own rendition of it seems to me like how a person also learns how to be inspired by the art of others. Where do we draw the line on what is considered "inspired by" and "stolen from" ?
When a person does an art work, it's not always free of inspiration from other works they're exposed to, but they're typically not accused of "stealing" someone's work just because they make art that incorporate similar styles, design, form, of other artists. This is going to be a difficult issue to deal with or regulate.
Where do we draw the line? It's pretty easy. It's the same line needed in any type of theft. Was permission given? If not, that's theft. No artist has ever said humans can not learn from them. There's actually a time honored tradition that artists learn from those that came before them. Artists have explicitly said they don't want ai learning from their work. Therefore the ai companies are engaged in theft. Permission is key. If someone tells me I can't use something they own, they could give me the stupidest reason why I can't. If I use it, it's theft.
@@jmhorange well said. Not sure why some people act like it’s hard to draw a line between real breathing people and a machine
@@DONTTOUCHTHEGRASSIMALLERGIC I don't know. I always thought humans and all animals intrinsically cared about their own species. Now, I'm not so sure about humans... I've had conversations with people with racist views. And I try to get them to see, "Hey, I get you care about your people, that's great, but those people you don't like, they are your people." I don't know where to start with someone who is okay with giving rights to ai at the expense of human rights. There's so many people recently that literally don't care if ai replaces or causes harm to humans. Progress at any costs. I mean, not this guy who started this thread, he may just be unclear what the issue is, but there's a lot of people that just don't care.
The problem is intention. There is no mind, no divergent thinking capacity behind AI-generate art. And, no, AI is not learning the way humans do, not even close. Try reading Eric Larson's book, The Myth Of Artificial Intelligence.
AI does not "identify traits", it associates keywords with pictures. You don't learn this way, by crunching JPGs on a weighted virtual graph, you learn by assimilating structured mental concepts. The way it learns is so far removed from the way we do that I'm surprised it even warrants an explanation, it's like having to explain to someone in the 60s how a computer differs from a humain brain lol.
It's like saying that you're the same as a nuclear reactor because you both consume fuel to generate energy. Technically true, but intentionally misleading and ridiculous for anyone who knows anything about humans or nuclear reactors. This belief that AI, an autocorrect tool on steroids, is the same as us in any capacity or is somehow gaining sentience, serves no one but greedy Silicon Valley ghouls looking to eat up entire industries on the back of their own work, under nebulous promises of progress, and the flimsy guise of fair use.
Obviously it`s not the AIs fault...it`s the idiot human programmer designing it this way....to cheat themselves through business & life. Sue the AI companies and get rid of them so we can get back to creating more careers for humans using that beautiful talent of human brush strokes. Of coarse...some AI is important to keep but not this type.
We don't HAVE AI, please stop insisting we do and go look up the definition of AI, including requirements such as a consciousness for example. The question is how can you protect something that by default exists in a maleable state of fair use from being fairly used, and the answer is you can't and aren't supposed to
All art is theft. It takes from what's already there. But copying an artists unique style precisely should be done with consent, since artists don't tend to be wealthy...until they are dead. The phrase " starving artist " exists for a reason. If you don't let artists make a living from their work, soon you won't have any artists to steal from. It will all be retro pictures/styles being copied circa 2033.
_"All art is theft."_
No it isn't. This is a false adage that has been telephoned through the centuries. The original quote in 1892 by W.H Davenport Adams condemned plagiarism.
“Great poets imitate and improve, while small poets steal and spoil.”
@@TychonAchae Theft is how artists learn. Imitation (using a model) is the greatest form of flattery.
@@Homeschoolsw6 - No it's not. No more than how anyone else learns' anything; then by that logic theft is how everyone learns.. I literally just gave you the actual source of the 'all artists steal' adage, which itself was never a quote anyone said at all. Good grief.
@@TychonAchae If that's how you feel.
@@Homeschoolsw6 - As opposed to how you feel?
The ship has sailed, hasn't it? Kind of like entering an event horizon? I really like Michio Kaku's perspective on this. When the processing speed of our working computers begins to transcend orders of magnitude, and the work that may have taken us years to do just days before may take us minutes and seconds instead, where do we go as a society? It seems silly to me that currency in any form would eventually matter, because if all the jobs are run for us, and all our needs are met, what is left of us but to dance as players on a stage of dreams? Hopefully we can all get along and embrace each other.
3:54. They're right. It's not theft. It's not copying. Full stop.
paused at 3:30 and i can't see any differences at all tbh
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Will not work. It China stilling tech changing it a little and different then selling the motherbord.
Viva la vera arte❤
If there's one thing for sure is that these ai machines should be destroyed. It shouldn't be here in the first place.
Art is a human activity. We can't lose that to a machine who's only job is to make soulless art for human consumption while we, the HUMAN BEINGS waste away on menial jobs.
> *If there's one thing for sure is that these ai machines should be destroyed. It shouldn't be here in the first place.*
It's not a physical machine that can be destroyed, it's software - and IMO you not seeing the need for the tech doesn't mean that there aren't people who find a way to incorporate it as a tool, and IMO it doesn't mean we can't find a way for it to have a home as a tool above all.
They said the same about printing presses. 🙄Cause writing was considered somekind of holy human activity.
It is just, because you feel a certain way does not make it true. 🤷♂
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The competition have levelled up.👍
BBC news!!!!!
Next great art: A picture of we bloody Yanks conquering Limeyland to finish the job heroic John Paul Jones started in 1778 by attacking the Limey Port of Whitehaven. 😜 -Dave the Bloody Yank
So, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan taught you nothing. You couldn't even defeat armies that were using bows and arrows and spears. Best you stay home and attend MAGA rallies.
He wasn't even a Yank, he was Scottish.
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@@Ass_of_Amalek 1) Yes, he was.
2) Regarding your username: Putin of Russia is evil!
I think that going forward AI art should not use imagery from living artists nor artists whose estates are still viable. With MJ at least it is not necessary to use an artists name to get good imagery. Concepts like ambient occlusion or fluid lines and many, many more are really just the grammar of visual imagery. No artist or group of artists can have ownership of that sort of intangible. Also so long as an image is only being used for personal use(not to be resold)I do not see the harm in using an artists name in a prompt. I am somewhat surprised that professional artists are not using AI as a means to quickly generate ideas. It could and should be used as tool to create points of departure and not be seen as the destination itself.
The problem with artists quickly generating ideas is in the short term, you may benefit. In the long term, you are undermining your profession. And the idea that we can create alongside AI is a flawed one in my opinion. Current artists will have the skill set to use their knowledge to make good ai art, but future artists won't be able to gain that knowledge. They'd be forced to rely on ai to make a living and not gain the knowledge current artists have from the pre ai world. And all that is feeding an ai that would eventually be able to it on its own. People talk about prompt engineers. There's chatgpt. It's not inconceivable that as ai improves, and multiple versions of ai are intergrated together, there would be ai, that can generate prompts for the images based on data gathered about a society's interests and trends sort of like how Netflix knows what movies you enjoy based on data. In a world where ai can do it on its own, it would be inefficient for a human to work alongside an ai. Sure you could do it as a hobby, but if you want to earn a living, a business would prefer the efficiency of ai doing it on its own.
@@jmhorange I do not disagree with what you are saying. But, the djinni is already out of the bottle. Market forces will always cut labor costs to improve it's bottom line. Perhaps artists can by way of lawsuits force AI providers to pay them royalties. Provided they can prove their case.
@@mutineer2639 the genie is only out of the bottle if we let it be so. Nuclear technology exists, cloning exists and yet we don't say it's out of the bottle. We regulate it. Market forces don't dictate anything. Otherwise the US wouldn't exist after the 2008 recession because the market would have had the banks fail and let the system self correct. Which it would have but at the expense of the US. There's all kinds of rules that don't allow the market to dictate things. And governments are interested in regulating this and they've raised concerns with compensation for artists which AI people couldn't answer. And artists are filling lawsuits, and also companies. Getty images has a lawsuit. As an artist, my primary concern is not if AI will replace artists. it's important but it's part of a larger issue. Every one of us has been generating data for the past 30 years. That vast trove of info should not be used by AI in ways we don't want and could harm us in ways we can't imagine today. What happens to creative people with AI today and how we handle it will set a precedent for what AI will be allowed to do tomorrow with humanity's data. And when I say ai, I mean AI companies, because it's a small few that are deciding the future for all of us.
@@jmhorange We're talking about a technology that exists digitally, who cannot be so easily controlled because the code powering it can be distributed freely in ways physical technologies, and processes like cloning cannot.
Should I say goos bye work and there will be a lot of people who don't have a job? Will we be like the Chinese Republic youngsters "better stay in the bedroom, even if I struggle, it will not take me everywhere, abd why should I live?"
Interesting topic thank you to BBC. I worked for outsourcing company and yes I am afraid of the wild development of AI.
Good day
Jag bryr mig inte! Det är inte min avdelning. 🖖
ITS A BIGGEST SCAM OR THEY ARE THIEFS BUT SAID PART BIG COMPANIES SUPPORT IT FOR MONEY EVEN CLIENT DONT WANT AI WORKS
So why is art work considered copyright material but lines and shapes aren't? If AI cannot use public information to train its model, then why can human use public information to train their brains to draw or why can camera/software engineers use public information to train/program their tools to perform functions of drawing (for example photography captures light using basic apeture/shutter knowledge public to all)
Because those public resources were made public by the creators who gave their consent to it, they weren't stolen.
@@seauniart who were the creators of English languages? and where is your proof of consent for you to write English?
@@AllTimeNoobie no one invented english duh, it just shaped itself from previous languages and previous languages and previous sounds, what a shit comparison is this lmao no one has invented it or made it up (it'd be different if it were a conlang aka a language made up by someone, if an AI were to copy from a conlang it'd be as disrespectful as when it copies artists/writers/creators etc)
If AI copies as exsisting artwork from an living artist, the creator of this AI meaning its owner/financial beneficairy is liable to damages on the copyright infringment .
Does this guy use a Tesla coil as a hair brush? Are they not paying BBC staff enough to groom themselves properly?
I just wish I could afford original art...
I just think it's funny how nobody had a problem with AI when they thought it would only replace the jobs of mathematicians, engineers and maybe coders etc... but the moment it's artists, musicians, designers, writers, and teachers.. everyone loses their minds. It's just a tool. Same as it always has been. If the tool makes your job obsolete.. time to well.. I guess learning to code is out now.
Incorrect, when predictions were made creatives would be last to be replaced by ai, ai was in no position to replace anyone at the time. So there was no reason for any industry, whether they were predicted to be first or last to get upset and protest. Why waste time and resources on a hypothetical future that may or may not come true?
Now that it's creative people's jobs, people are paying attention. It could have been any field first and people would naturally start paying attention to ai and want regulations around the new tech that exists in the present. There's no double standard.
A tool that requires the very outputs it is relying on in order to displace. That's called a parasite by definition.
Tools that create progress do so by creating value, not by appropriating it.
I think the Adobe Firefly way of using licensed artwork and images is probably the best way forward which needs to be worked out soon because I do really like ai as a creative tool and would hate for it to be illegal or something. It’s a potential minefield though and there’s usually two creative types, the people who have ideas but can’t always make them happen and then there’s the people who make the ideas happen for other people.I think ai is going to take work away from the latter because the idea people won’t need anyone else to make their ideas come to life. Scary but mind blowing at the same time…
No. Adobe Firefly never had an opt-out option, at the same time, you could find the work of artists that never gave consent in their dataset.
@@AlvaroRealtimeMayhem I meant more the idea they said they were doing not necessarily the way they handled it.
@@notmyrealaccount8564 The problem is it would be cost prohibitive for them to ask artists for permission. They wouldn't be able to make a profit to get the billions and billions of data to train the data sets. The set of artists that would agree to it, would be a subset of the artists they currently have. And they'd have to pay the artists a decent rate, but even at a terrible rate, we are talking billions upon billions upon billions of data, which means even at a terrible rate, that's billions and billions of dollars allocated to artists (And not just artist, companies. Getty images is suing these AI models for consuming their content.). It already costs a lot of money to just run these ai models with millions of people entering prompts. Which is why they didn't ask for permission to eliminate the enormous costs of paying artists.
The truth is their business model should never have existed because it's unprofitable if done ethically, but now that it does, and in an unethical form, they are hoping people see it as a minor thing and the backlash dies down so they can move forward with their business model and make a profit from it.
@@jmhorange I don’t know I think they could find a way, I suspect now it’s been done it will only become cheaper and faster especially if ai is used to help train other models. I think artists will come around though as they have tended to overvalue themselves before and found out the hard way that they were not as valuable as they thought. I think as long as there’s an opportunity to earn some money from their work, there’s always going to be artists that will be happy to contribute and then there’s usually some other way to earn money that pops up after a period of adjustment like different subscription models or ways for people to support their work.
@@notmyrealaccount8564 I don't know what artists you hang around with but artists tend to undervalue themselves, that's my pet peeve, I've lead groups of artists to get compensated for their work at studios. People in general don't like to rock the boat, and without a union, they often look to the business to compensate them fairly.
Regardless, let's say artists demand too much and even accept a reduced price. Companies would have to be in this category too since their work is in the training data. And non artists, because things like medical data has appeared in the training sets. All these groups would have to be paid. I don't think you grasp how much data the AI needs to work. They could pay pennies on the dollar and the cost would be too much to build a profitable business on. The choice to not get permission was an intentional one, not some mistake. A non profit collected the data which was fine, as they couldn't use it for profit. And then a for profit company came and used that data which they would not be able to collect without permission as a for profit company to train their AI. At one point they said they would never do the same thing with music and listed the ethical issues artists have raised in deciding not to. Now they are doing music but it proves they knew it was unethical to collect artists work without permission. And yet they chose to move forward. Better to ask forgiveness than permission and they are hoping people like you forgive them and see the issue of permission as a minor issue.