though, you’ll be seeing a lot of original work from me, most of it featuring characters from the comic i’m currently putting together called Johnny and Thicket !
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not even discreetly inspired by tracy’s drawing of zib in this post because of a silly conversation that’s usually how these things happen anyway
Deciding to be an artist for a living is honestly a pretty dumb decision. You get told by everyone it’s unrealistic, you’ll never be good enough, it’s not a real job etc. Still, you decide to try, you battle your negative thoughts daily as you start to second guess whether this path was meant for you - thinking of giving up several times. But you just can’t, it’s the only thing you want to do in life. You need to be a little dumb to follow this path, otherwise you’d be blinded by reason.
When AI samples images from us without permission, they’re not just taking data. They’re taking a lifetime of dedication and putting it into a program, just to spit out some amalgamation of what is supposed to mimic human expression.
Its current implementation is unethical and should be illegal. Current AI was trained on the non-consensual use of people’s work and copyrighted material. There are no laws in place to protect artists, and there is no compensation for your work being used. Until the software starts to exclusively stick to art that is royalty free or with the artists permission, I ask you all to boycott AI and support human artists.
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
