So even though this tool is only searching a fraction of the artwork #StableDiffusion was trained on, and I'm small-time, I was still able to find it has my "Darwin Took Steps" painting in the database. #AIart#artcred#sciart
Interestingly, it's scraped from @redbubble.
I removed this painting from my RedBubble store a few years ago.
I care a lot about artists getting their due, especially credit and consent. I've written a lot about copyright, sharing and effective image use, including at @sciam for 4 years. #sciart#AIart#artcred symbiartic.com/home/scicomm-w…
(Also, apologies: one of the only times in recent memory I’ve neglected adding alt text to an image.)
I am not okay with my artwork being included in word-prompt AI image databases without my consent and permission.
It’s not ethical. These are powerful tools being built recklessly.
#StableDiffusion at least allows enough transparency to see this much.
The internet has had problems with artist credit since the beginning.
Word-prompt AI image generators, so-called “Web3, and NFT marketplaces have magnified these problems to a destructive degree.
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✨Artists have done the reading✨
We’ve spent our careers trying new tech and thinking about copyright.
Stop acting like our criticism of word-prompt AI image platforms is uninformed, and start listening.
The past few days I’ve seen AI tech bros claim artists and ethicists with criticisms of word-prompt AI image platforms are:
-uneducated
-emotionally vomiting
-Luddites
-gatekeeping
-fearful and fearmongering
-using false techno moralism
-spreading misinformation
These are platforms using datasets that scraped billions of hours of artists’ labour without consent or our knowledge.
If it was done for research purposes originally, there may be something of a fair use argument there, though that still sucks.
For many artists, we're not scared of new tools and tech. The dilemma here is that billions of our images have been added to datasets to train these word-prompt AI image (#WPAII) platforms without our knowledge or consent.
Would I enjoy loading up my portfolio into an exclusive dataset to create some images based off my own work? Sounds fun.
But what DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc have done --wherever the legality lands-- is rob artists of agency and hand it to commercial interests.
And so now that the AI rollercoaster is loaded up with riders, artists are left begging for someone to take us seriously and put guardrails on the thing.
Artists should have been in the room at its creation. Ethicists should have been in the room.
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