interest in art - let alone real commitment to learning how to create art - and it exists only because the AI company whose tool was used stole all the images they could without real artists' permission, let alone compensating them.
Real artists hate AI slop. Many of them have moved to a new platform, Cara, to get away from it.
Someone posted an article about that particular fake artist in the Artists forum here, where it did not belong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/19/auntieverse-art-niceaunties-surreal-fantasy-older-women
Niceaunties, who is also an architectural designer, works with AI to generate images, using tools such as Midjourney, where users feed text prompts in order to create an image.
The role of AI in art is controversial. In the US, artists have filed class-action lawsuits against AI companies, alleging their work has been used, often without permission, while others warn the technology threatens artists’ livelihoods and the future of the creative industries.
“I think change is inevitable – the world is changing and we can choose to face it in so many different ways,” says Niceaunties. She has received online hostility from people who oppose the use of AI, including a bomb threat, and uses an alias for this reason.
I'm sorry she ever received any kind of threat but there was good reason for the hostility. And I've seen lots of fake artists, artists using AI, on Twitter posting "adapt or die" to real artists, boasting about adding real artists' images to AI to try to copy them with zero effort and talent, telling the real artists they hope they'll go broke and lose everything. I saw one nitwit telling real artists to adapt or die compare real artists who despise AI to 19th century surgeons who didn't believe in germs and refused to wash their hands. Insane comparison.
Anyway, as for this particular AI user: None of the images or videos are her work, and what AI generates can't be copyrighted for that reason. And the AI is mindlessly following algorithms, unaware of what it creates. These fake artists sometimes discard hundreds of images generated before they get one that they feel is acceptable, with all those attempts to get something they like using electricity and water (to cool the data centers). The fake artist has so little control that the identical prompt will lead the AI to churn out endless different pictures, and it's always possible that AI might give the same picture to someone else using a different prompt.
This is nothing like the way real artists create art.
I've played with AI image generators. It's mildly entertaining to see how they can generate an assortment of images in seconds (usually 4 to choose from, and you can always ask for another 4, then another, ad infinitum). But I'd've been deluding myself to try to claim it was real art or that I'd created it.
It's just AI slop. It isn't art.
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