As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
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Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#2Title should be more like, artists concerned about Stable Diffusion AI model that makes images look human-made.
Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#3Title should be more like, artists concerned about Stable Diffusion AI model that makes images look human-made.
It also apparently copies the artist’s logo.
In a way, the “it just does what humans do but faster” argument is starting to follow the “a number can’t be illegal” trajectory.
Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#4The linked reaction is probably slightly too alarmist but I am also still surprised that this was the field that some manager decided to devote millions of dollars of research and development funds to automate.
I've read in advice for technical founders that programmers tend to want to jump and automate the wrong problems, and this feels a bit like one of those cases in retrospect.
Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#5Title should be more like, artists concerned about Stable Diffusion AI model that makes images look human-made.
It also apparently copies the artist’s logo. In a way, the “it just does what humans do but faster” argument is starting to follow the “a number can’t be illegal” trajectory.
Either way I support AI art and AI in other fields. Just because artists are mad it's gonna take their jobs does not seem like a legitimate reason to halt human progress. It's just inevitable the way things are going.
Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also apparently copies the artist’s logo. In a way, the “it just does what humans do but faster” argument is starting to follow the “a number can’t be illegal” trajectory.
Either way I support AI art and AI in other fields. Just because artists are mad it's gonna take their jobs does not seem like a legitimate reason to halt human progress. It's just inevitable the way things are going.
Just because some trend feels inevitable doesn’t mean we shouldn’t oppose it. We shouldn’t be beholden to the march of technology like it’s some force of nature that we are powerless to resist.
Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#7I sympathize with all artists who are concerned about these new tools. Once I thought about being a full time artist, but life got in the way.
However, visual art creates a cultural feedback loop that is constantly evolving, it is a crucial mirror that shows us stark naked. Just read the history of art.
People should not forget that there is no way this technology can make such a vital form of collective expression relevant without artists participating in it.
Of course it will disrupt a lot of things, and nobody enjoys that, but new ways of meaningfully involving humans in it will continue to emerge. Otherwise it would just cease to be relevant.
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#8There is a response to this tweet where someone says "stop gatekeeping art" which while I understand the gist of what they mean, seems like a weird thing to say to console someone who is concerned they are about to be automated out of a job.
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#9A lot of art created now, especially for film/ media, already goes through a similar process that AI just automates and accelerates. Several big concept artists I have met have lamented on the fact that many artists in the industry basically churn compositions out through mashing references they gather on google images or asset stores, not to mention just straight photobashing, which has made a lot of the concepts produced fairly derivative and homogenized since everything is just referencing what google images serves or assets that everyone else uses.
Even fine artists have likely had their practice influenced by the whims of what the algorithms on major social media outlets are willing to favor in order to get engagement. It kind of feels like many creatives have been incentivized into becoming slaves to these processes, which has in turn made them seem replaceable with AI.
Re: As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It also apparently copies the artist’s logo. In a way, the “it just does what humans do but faster” argument is starting to follow the “a number can’t be illegal” trajectory.
Either way I support AI art and AI in other fields. Just because artists are mad it's gonna take their jobs does not seem like a legitimate reason to halt human progress. It's just inevitable the way things are going.
What progress? We’re bruteforcing solutions without any way to learn from then. ML eliminates serendipity. I’m not strictly anti-ML. Horses for courses and all that, but I’ve got to admit I get weird, “The humans stopped learned and the computers started,” sci-fi vibes sometimes.