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Overheard a guy at the coffee shop say AI art is 'basically theft' and I can't stop thinking about it
I was grabbing a muffin last Tuesday and this dude at the next table was going on about how using an AI image generator is no different than stealing from real artists. He said it with so much certainty, like it's just a fact. I get the concern but doesn't that kinda ignore the way humans learn too? We all look at stuff and get inspired. I dunno, it just rubbed me the wrong way. Has anyone else heard takes like this that make you question where the line really is?
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rowangonzalez23d ago
Heard this take from a podcast too, someone was comparing it to a collage artist who cuts up magazines but at least they physically rearrange the pieces you know? The thing that bugs me is how they act like human artists don't also absorb thousands of images before making their own stuff. I remember reading this article where a guy trained his AI only on paintings he owned the rights to and the results were still pretty good, so maybe the real issue is just bad data sets. Feels like people are fighting over a tool instead of the actual shady practices some companies are doing with it.
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drew_grant5223d ago
In that article you mentioned about the guy training AI on his owned paintings, do you remember if the output managed to avoid looking derivative or did it just remix his own style in a narrower way @rowangonzalez? From my experience, a lot of these arguments boil down to whether the training data is broad and messy versus tight and ethical, and the results can be night and day. It gets frustrating when people point at the problems with dataset rights and pretend the whole concept is doomed, instead of calling out the companies that cut corners.
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