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Unsurprisingly, artists are more neurotic than the average person. Online artists also seem to spend a lot of time lying to each other about how AI works.

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While I agree it’s painful, I’ve seen examples of ai reproducing exact bastardized versions of famous instagram digital artists. You can clearly see where it learned from it and it’s extremely obvious, not in the sense of one who could say “oh yes I was inspired by this” but a literal 1:1 copy that has the drunken haze of melted ai nonsense over top. In this respect I was like damn … that may piss me off.

Yeah, you can do anything with AI so you can train it to reproduce a specific image if you want to. Normally this would be considered overfitting in a foundation model, so there's some protection in that they don't want to be doing it. But with fine-tuning it can happen intentionally.

But people can also copy you by hand if they want to.

It is not even about remaking some individual work, that is just the most egregious.

For any other output, even if it does not reproduce 1:1, the only reason it works at all is thanks to acquired training data and most of it is stolen.

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