Since AI generated work is such a hot topic at the moment. And to hopefully prevent from that heated discussion taking place in the comments on my profile or pictures. I think I should make my stance on it clear here.
This is not to spark discussion, it is to let you people know how I think about it. These are my personal opinions and findings that formed during the relatively short period I've been dabbling with AI (about a year since writing this)
Maybe I should do this in Q/A style and leave the option open for you guys to ask me questions as well. Please stay civil.
Q) Do you think you're an artist, now that you're a thief?
A) No, I'm not an artist and will never claim to be. I can't draw if my life depended on it. I have tried in the past. My scribbles make me weep and think I'm still in 1st grade.
Q) You're not creative, you're letting the AI do it all for you.
A) I'm creative in different ways. I'm a mediocre 3d-modeler. I program. I dabble with sound and music sometimes. I write, mostly roleplay.
Q) Ok so you are creative in different ways, what has that got to do with the AI stuff?
A) Nothing directly. Some indirectly. My programming and tech skills help me work with the AI a bit more easily then most untrained people. My 3d modeling gives me access to some terms and keywords that I can use in prompt-writing to get better results. My writing skills and roleplay help me come up with creative ideas and to put those into words or tokenize them.
Q) Don't you feel guilty knowing AI is stealing other peoples artwork?
A) It can. You won't hear me say it doesn't. The danger of that happening is especially there when you download 'custom models'. These have been trained on specific topics. Eg: Good furry artwork, or artwork of certain artists.
The danger with these models is that they are often trained for a long time on a limited amount of pictures. And when you do that, the same thing happens when you do that with a human brain. It starts imitating at first, but if you go on long enough, it starts copying. If you train the AI for waaay to long, at some point it can't even generate anything else anymore but those copied images. You'll get the same results over and over.
I agree wholeheartedly that this is a very bad thing. It is called 'overfitting' the AI, and results in the AI stealing.
Q) You're bad, don't you know AI always steals?
A) No, I think not. I've seen enough to know that it can generate original work. Yes, it knows how to draw fur because it's seen other artworks with fur. But a properly balanced model, that hasn't been overfitted, will learn how to draw fur in-general. Not copy it. It has learned from watching countless of different people and photos of animals. Not from 1 singular source and copying that.
Provided a balanced model is used! That's the important bit.
Q) It draws a logo / signature of a certain artist and signs with it. You're still telling me it's not stealing?
A) Again a result from overfitting. The ai, when seeing enough pictures of a certain artist, will learn what their signature or logo looks like and will, when trained for way too long, learn how to copy that. You can see that happen with 'shutterstock' logo's plastered across generated artwork as well. It's seen so many images that have that, that it learns how to do it and thinks it 'belongs' in that type of image.
In general, feed it enough artwork with a signature, and it'll think artwork needs a 'scribble' down there and will try to imitate that from the 'scribbles' it has seen before.
Again, when overtrained/overfitted, the ai will copy a signature instead of make something 'sortof a signature'
So if a properly balanced AI generates a picture with a signature. It just means it's been trained on pictures that have a signature. It doesn't mean it is stealing that particular artwork and copying their signature. (But it can, when overfitted)
Q) Don't you hate it that AI will make people lose their jobs?
A) Yes, yes it will. I hate to say and admit it. But it does. Same as when 3d rendering happened in the animation industry. Or when photoshop came out. People have lost jobs over that. There were also new jobs created. And artists have learned to embrace the medium and use it as a tool to further their art. And I think the same will happen with AI artwork. Artists will learn to make use of it and make their art better. I for one have used it to do the shading on line art drawn by my boyfriend (who is an artist). You can even use it to learn from it.
Q) Do you do anything at all? AI art takes no effort!
A) Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It really depends. Yes you can write some keywords and click that generate button. And tadaa 5 seconds later you got that 'masterpiece'. But it doesn't have to be that way at all. You can work for days on a piece if you want to. You can go in and work and improve little pieces of it, regenerate parts. You can 'insert' stuff you make into it, patterns, tattoos, colors etc etc. With particularly large pieces I often go in and work on smaller parts. Not the whole image at once. You can add stuff after the fact. Little details, props etc. Some of the artwork I made has been generated over many many iterations. It's not uncommon for me to have my generations folder filled with 500+ nearly identical versions of what I'm working on, attempting to narrow down to exactly what I want. For poses and positioning I might even open up a 3d renderer or open-pose and use skeletal models to guide the ai in what I want. Getting an AI to do something specific, exactly how you want it to, isn't as easy as 'just letting it generate'. Most of the time I'm fighting it because it keeps messing up.
Q) Will AI art kill real art?
A) No. There will always be a demand for human-produced artwork. Be it ai-assisted or not. I for one appreciate it a whole lot more if I get a piece that I know was done with heart, made for me, by an artist I care for. I cherish those pieces a whole lot more then AI art. Even when it's been drawn poorly. Because it has emotional value. Somebody drew that because they appreciate you, or thought of you. It's priceless and giving it that emotional value is not something an AI will ever be capable of doing.
I might add to this when things come up. But for now I think this is sufficient to make my stance clear.
Please be reminded these are my personal opinions and findings regarding AI. I'm not claiming to preach 'the truth'. You are very welcome to have your own thoughts about all of this.
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