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Edit 1.5.2024

Since someone gave this a boost (go you! AI is still an issue) and people seemt o be unable to look at the post date and complaining about how outdated it is, here's a new bit:

While a lot of the stuff has changed during these years the main line still stands: the use of AI image generation is still unregulated and unethical. If anything, the problems have escalated. The spreading use of AI is driving artists out of work. Artist teams have been fired in favor of a team of prompters who cannot deliver what the art directors want from them. There are uses for AI, for example using AI to do simple fixes that would take a human a lot of hours but don't need the human touch at all, such as exapanding images or changing the eye colour of characters in every frame of a movie (Dune 2), but replacing artists with AI is a problem and will result in not only unemployment in artist jobs and further exploitation of artists's work, but also in horribly dull, homogenous and uninspired productions and imagery.

I am glad to see that there is still enough rebellion in the artist community and among those who appreciate human made art. To all the human artists reading this: don't give in to the depressive thoughts! What matters is that you keep making art despite - on in spite - of everything that is trying to repress you. Whether or not you choose to post it - and I hope you do because otherwise art platforms will turn into AI mush - the act of creating deserves to live on.

Edit 20.12.2022
There are two fundraisers currently gathering funds to fight unehtical use of data to train AI models and protect artists' work.

For the US: gofund.me/2df3dc07

For the EU MeFu (recently just launched): gofund.me/1cd549ba

Also if you want to watch/listen to some good discussions abou the ethics of AI here's a few:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYO9si…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1Cei…

This is important and needs to be said.

While AI generated images are here to stay and image generation has a potential of being a useful tool, the current way it is being trained is unethical. AI generated images or writing should not be stealing from human artists. Images are being scraped without the artists' consent, on this and other platforms, and anyone standing up to that gets a whole load of disdain from AI apologists.

AI image generation is not comparable to human artists' work. Someone writing the prompts is no more an artist as someone ordering a pizza is a chef.

To make AI image generation sustainable and ethical, hire or buy the rights to use artists work to train those softwares. Our personal work is not free real estate. Untouched, uncredited AI generated images are theft and exploitation of human artists' work.

This shit needs to be regulated. AI generated music is trained by royalty free music. Why does the same not apply to image generation? Why is human artwork not valued and the copyrights respected? Why should artists, who have worked years on honing their craft, embrace a technology that is using that work and skill without consent and without compensation?

This shit is an insult to life itself.

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Edit 1.5.2024

Since someone gave this a boost (go you! AI is still an issue) and people seemt o be unable to look at the post date and complaining about how outdated it is, here's a new bit:

While a lot of the stuff has changed during these years the main line still stands: the use of AI image generation is still unregulated and unethical. If anything, the problems have escalated. The spreading use of AI is driving artists out of work. Artist teams have been fired in favor of a team of prompters who cannot deliver what the art directors want from them. There are uses for AI, for example using AI to do simple fixes that would take a human a lot of hours but don't need the human touch at all, such as exapanding images or changing the eye colour of characters in every frame of a movie (Dune 2), but replacing artists with AI is a problem and will result in not only unemployment in artist jobs and further exploitation of artists's work, but also in horribly dull, homogenous and uninspired productions and imagery.

I am glad to see that there is still enough rebellion in the artist community and among those who appreciate human made art. To all the human artists reading this: don't give in to the depressive thoughts! What matters is that you keep making art despite - on in spite - of everything that is trying to repress you. Whether or not you choose to post it - and I hope you do because otherwise art platforms will turn into AI mush - the act of creating deserves to live on.

Edit 20.12.2022
There are two fundraisers currently gathering funds to fight unehtical use of data to train AI models and protect artists' work.

For the US: gofund.me/2df3dc07

For the EU MeFu (recently just launched): gofund.me/1cd549ba

Also if you want to watch/listen to some good discussions abou the ethics of AI here's a few:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYO9si…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u1Cei…

This is important and needs to be said.

While AI generated images are here to stay and image generation has a potential of being a useful tool, the current way it is being trained is unethical. AI generated images or writing should not be stealing from human artists. Images are being scraped without the artists' consent, on this and other platforms, and anyone standing up to that gets a whole load of disdain from AI apologists.

AI image generation is not comparable to human artists' work. Someone writing the prompts is no more an artist as someone ordering a pizza is a chef.

To make AI image generation sustainable and ethical, hire or buy the rights to use artists work to train those softwares. Our personal work is not free real estate. Untouched, uncredited AI generated images are theft and exploitation of human artists' work.

This shit needs to be regulated. AI generated music is trained by royalty free music. Why does the same not apply to image generation? Why is human artwork not valued and the copyrights respected? Why should artists, who have worked years on honing their craft, embrace a technology that is using that work and skill without consent and without compensation?

This shit is an insult to life itself.