As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it’s also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it’s a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?
Even if it was trained with copyrighted artwork without the original artists’ permission and it’s capable of outputting untouched images with the right prompt?
I was thinking of a socialist system where copyright isn’t a factor. Under capitalism or a very early stage of socialism, AI art generators will absolutely be abused by large corporations to use the works of smaller artists who can’t feasibly sue them
For a practical solution, limiting the input data to photos would remove the issue of stealing artists’ work (excluding photographers)
Fully agree.