Artists Protest After ArtStation Features AI-Generated Images
The industryâs biggest portfolio site has few protections in place against it, though that may change
To me that term âArtificial Intelligenceâ is misleading. What this program does is take a ready-made style from its database and try to adapt it to what was requested. If by chance in the database there are drawings with wrong proportionsâŚit will include the errors too.
Hmmm⌠artwork on artfol and inkblot canât be copied or saved (like, you canât right click image and âsave image asâŚâ) nor they allow ai image on their platform, so⌠I think itâs a bit save.
But then again, they canât prevent someone taking screenshot nor can differentiate between human made or AI, so itâs not 100% safeâŚ
I am glad folks are protesting it.
AI art damages the artists in so many ways. It also makes us critical of talent.
If someone you arenât familiar with, posts something really good, rather than the first thought of being âwow, congrats on such a fine piece.â Immediate thoughts are, " was this generated?" That takes the joy, the heart, and soul of the piece away from any legit artist doing the work, just because we now go there first to question it.
That can be easily overcome by a python script or some other bot scraping website, AI are not trained by saving individual images and feeding it. Once you publish the image on web using html it can be saved and scrapped. so the sense of security inkblot and artfol provide are false. it is just minor annoyance for humans who want to save the artworks.
AI art is theft. AI has itâs place but not in the art world. Unfortunately I believe it isnât going anywhere. Too many people naively enjoy using it.
Today is a sad day.
I think it is a shame that two developers of AI plugins for Krita want to withdraw here and, if I understand it correctly, that one of them even wants to stop further development of his plugin.
This technology is fascinating, and it should continue to be available and advanced in the FOSS realm.
It is not that I am uncritical about AI based image generation, quite the contrary, but my criticism is not about the technology as such, but about those who irresponsibly or even out of greed or egotism brought and bring this technology into disrepute.
This is a matter that some people seem to be unable to grasp, given my clearly stated positions and questions on the topic of AI image generation, but whose deepening does not belong here.
Please continue with your plugins, and if your license(s) are currently not Krita-compatible, please adjust your licenses so that the use of your plugins does not exceed any licensing limits. It wonât hurt you, but your envies will probably dislike it, but this shouldnât bother you, take care of that in which you have invested so much work, because this is how you take care of yourself.
You know what you are doing, donât let stupid people take away the joy of what you create! So you harm yourself, make the users of your plugins sad and the envious and hate-speakers, big favor.
Michelist
Add: @raghukamath, maybe you can merge this with the now closed AI discussion topic? Or is it too far beside it?
People need to understand that the issue is not the âgenerating artâ tech itself, but the datasets it uses to do so. I do not think any artist would mind an AI tool which uses an ethically sourced datasets which gives full compensation to the artists for using their images.