This is pretty funny to me, because it reminds me a lot of when boomers go on Facebook and yell "I DO NOT CONSENT TO MARK 'FACEBOOK' ZUCKERBERG USING MY PHOTOS" like it's a magic incantation to ward of evil spirits. The site itself doing this is, obviously, a step up from users whining, and maybe it'll stop a large aggregate like LAION from using some content there, but it won't stop any "bad actors" or just individuals who will scrape their target artist's work and do their own training. Actually, you know what would be funny? Setting up a scraper that specifically targeted HTMLs with this NoAI tag. That would be some fun salt to see in action.
So apparently image generators are getting messed up due to artists sabotaging thier art, these artists are genuinely starting to piss me off. Just let me make my big boobas ladies
The funny thing is, all they can do is say "pwetty pwease don't use our images in your AI owo " Because there is no law against it, and being against terms of service doesn't mean jack shit if you're not a user of the site.
The funny thing is, all they can do is say "pwetty pwease don't use our images in your AI owo " Because there is no law against it, and being against terms of service doesn't mean jack shit if you're not a user of the site.
Now, I get there’s some valid concerns about it being used for revenge porn and fabricating incriminating evidence, since I was able to generate realistic nudes of myself using 20 fully clothed images. However, the cat’s out of the bag, and all banning the tech will do is harm people just trying to have fun and make artwork.
There will be an attempt, I already see these losers trying to brainstorm ideas as to how to manifest it (like the Disney guy a few pages back).
It's not going to hold up in court that "da big bad AI steals artwork" because it's been explained multiple times that that's not how it works. The argument is dying out and I've noticed the mask is falling off as to why they're ACTUALLY mad at AI art: they see it as "cheating".
Now I've been seeing people copying images from Midjourney, watermarking it as their own, reposting it to their groups & artist pages, or even turning them into NFTs.
And if the image does have a creator's watermark they'll crop/mask it out, maybe sharpen/mess with the contrast so it's not a 1-1 copy, and then not mention it as originally AI-generated. They bask in the likes & positive comments about how awesome it is, without admitting to the fact that it's not their work. Example:
Q: "Wow! This is beautiful! Where did you find it?"
A: "It's mine"
Q: "Oh wow, I thought it was AI!"
I just had a massive argument with a close friend about how things like MJ & SD actually work; that it takes actual man-hours, human trial & error, and at least a modicum of artistic skill to make a finished product.
But what pissed me off is that she saw absolutely nothing wrong with people taking AI-generated images from others & claiming it as their own, because AI stole the art in the first place. To these people theft is ok because they hate the tools, and are wilfully ignorant about how they're used.
And that's the crux of their whole autistic biscuit, and it's sort of like penis-envy too. They can't stand the fact that AI affords average plebs the ability to create their own art.
The hilarious bit is that they're so rabidly anti-AI that they'll refuse to use it themselves, even though it would definitely help & possibly even make them money; because principles! And they'll never admit to themselves that even Photoshop & Instagram uses AI to fix sloppy images or create their favorite selfie filters.
Now, I get there’s some valid concerns about it being used for revenge porn and fabricating incriminating evidence, since I was able to generate realistic nudes of myself using 20 fully clothed images. However, the cat’s out of the bag, and all banning the tech will do is harm people just trying to have fun and make artwork.
Actually ask these fucking ludites to pick a piece of AI generated imagery. And point out exactly what piece of art, artist, and artstyle it's "copied". They will never ever fucking answer this question. Because deep down they know the AI didn't copy anything. It made something new. Maybe inspired by the same art they use to make their shitty Pixar and anime self portraits. It's such a disingenuous fucking argument they keep making. Purely out of insecurity at their obsolescence and lack of desire to "git gud" and develop a unique artstyle an AI can't cater for.
Here, I'll ask you fine people the same question. I generated four pieces of art using my customized version of Stable Diffusion. Same prompt, two different models. Which art has been copied? And from which artist. Bare in mind I didn't actually specify an artist name in either prompt so it could be multiple.
Starting off with castle ruins provided a decent start point, so I spiced it up with some stained glass.
But it kept giving the castle stained glass, and wasn't very spaceshippy:
So I turned the castle into a parking-lot, which produced some sort of Burning Man B-17, a Phish Constellation, and a Deadhead Airbus.
Ditched the wheels, parking lot, and added robot legs. I call this "CSSS Hunley "
Now that's..... something.
Old steampunk spaceship on robotic legs, tarnished hull with one stained-glass windshield, symmetrical fuselage, set in a field of grass, high definition, moody, cloudy, diffuse lighting, tilt shift
Old steampunk spaceship on three robotic legs, tarnished hull with one stained-glass windshield, two delta wings, symmetrical fuselage, set on a field of grass, high definition, moody, cloudy, diffuse lighting, tilt shift
Did a bunch of runestones/stonehenge/easter island type stuff recently for a friend. Got this one in one of the results and I'm trying to figure out what game the watermark was for originally. It looks familiar, but I can't place it. Anyone know?
Also been having fun using the vectorizer plugin plus a vinyl cutter to make masks for glass etching so I can give the extended family some nice personalized glass steins for xmas. I'll post some pics of the results when I get a good one that doesn't involve personally identifying info.
This should give AAI spergs, luddites, the seethe-flavored vapors, while the anti-AI grifters will surely use this kind of thing to fuel their go-fund me's.
I wonder where people like James Cameron & Michael Bay stand with all this. Do they seethe because these tools could hurt their Avatar/Transformers monopolies; or do they support the concept & artists, but can't publicly comment or endorse it because of backlash from AAI activists & autistic fans?
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" Because there is no law against it, and being against terms of service doesn't mean jack shit if you're not a user of the site.
