Ewan Morrison: Sad to say, but we may have to stop posting art images on all social media platforms.

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Ewan Morrison
@MrEwanMorrison

Sad to say, but we may have to stop posting art images on all social media platforms.

We now know that X, instagram, Tik Tok and facebook are all scraping every image that they can for their Generative AIs, and so generating tons of amateruish slop that breaches all copyright. It's swamping out real art and destroying artist's livelihoods.

The sharing of art on X/twitter created great communities over the last years, but now, out of respect for artists - we should maybe stop feeding the AI machine.

What are your thoughts, dear friends in the X arts communities?

To help you contemplate this question: Here is some AI slop on a Da Vinci / Johannson theme.

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1. At least, the platforms can be sued, but for fostering copyright violatons by individuals?

I don't know enough about the legalities.

And by Leonardo?

I am more worried that it's now "trivial" to create pornographic and sick images of anyone by anyone else without consent or knowledge, and this has already led to suicides.

Or just plain falsehood and defamation.

Right-wingers can’t get enough of anti-Haitian AI disinformation / Meanwhile, Springfield’s Haitian community reports an increase in threats.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/12/24243021/springfield-ohio-haitians-ai-generated-misinformation-trump

One of the most recent examples comes from Tyler Oliveira, a YouTuber and MrBeast associate, who posted a misleading video about Springfield on Wednesday. Oliveira’s video intersperses interviews with locals — including some Haitians — with AI-generated images and memes. Just five seconds in, the video shows a clearly AI-generated clip of a Black man driving a white van surrounded by cats. The video also features clips totally unrelated to Springfield, including footage of a woman being arrested for eating a cat in Canton, Ohio, and a clip of gang members marching on a street in Haiti. It’s a textbook example of disinformation.

But as for art, I am a photographer, and figure that anything I post here will be ripped off for profit, so I only submit shrunken images, and not my best. You have to befriend me to see the good stuff. And that's not working out so great.

Working on the cure.

Without grant money.