Hmmm, and why should an artist have to keep track of all and any companies that may be scraping their online portfolio (which any professional or even semi professional artist is expected to have) to opt out, just in case their work has been used.The burden should be on the company profiting from them.
Agreed, and I would add the problem that without human artists taking the time and effort and skill to create art, these 'AI' would have nothing to feed off of. By destroying any living an artist could make by reproducing shoppinglist amalgamations for cheap, we are disintegrating the last small platforms for living artists . We're disrespecting the dedication and skill it takes to create art by pretending that a computer can create art as humans do.
The human giving the prompt is shopping, not creating. The only way a computer can compute an image is by copying the vectors of imagery made by humans and then labeled and plotted and fed to said computer. Humans paint, draw, do physical things to make art. Computers are fed plotline statistics that they can pull up to fullfil a shopping list. Humans generated the imagery, uploaded the imagery,labeled the imagery and wrote the code to manipulate the imagery. Now, I'm not a big proponent of copyright. If someone can paint just like Rembrant, then I applaud their skill. At the end of the day, 'AI' is not 'learning' ,it is replicating input data by filtering a large amount of data sets with appropriate labels ( affixed by humans) and using a statistical algorithm to approximate somebody's shopping list of art they wish they had the skill to create. I'll take the Rembrant forgery, thank you.
The AI art models are scraping imagery made by human effort and skill and then more humans label and tag it so it can be indexed, ( because you can show a computer an image all day long and it still won't 'learn' what it is unless you tag it) and then another human puts in their wishlist of art they want (without any cost or effort to learn skill) and the 'AI' displays back a collage of the content from the wishlist. And then presto all sorts of merchandise are available with this art taken without permission from the people that made it. People do the physical action of creating imagery, AI indexes it.
If it were a question of learning...When you ask AI art programs for a sunset, AI does not produce a sunset, it pulls imagery from its data bank. It may manipulate it, filter it, add to it, but the image itself was created by somebody, whether by hand or by photography or software. AI is learning to pull imagery, manipulate and collage it, not create it. If the AI companies contented themselves with supplying there own imagery to manipulate I would not mind, but stealing from any artist that has ever had their art on a web page is really not ok. AI is not learning to paint or draw like 'so and so', AI is taking existing created imagery and regurgitating it. If you feel comfortable stealing from original content creators...
Getty and shutterstock images are watermarked and copyrighted as to not being reproduced, so , no, they are not confining themselves to copyright. Also, take 'AI' that is used currently to sell art on t-shirts for example, if you specify yellow eyes, it will show you examples of yellow eyes and you choose the one you want. The AI did not produce those samples. The AI did not learn to make pictures of yellow eyes. The AI produced samples of yellow eyes from it's repository of collected images that it did not make itself nor ask permission to use nor pay for.
My next button...is the one I need to repair my flannel shirt. I made sure all three of my milenial children had sewing boxes and could hand sew simple repairs. Can they choose to pay someone else, get a new shirt or ask Mom to do it because I am much faster, sure. But the point is they have that choice and more importantly no one is making assumptions for and about them and consequently taking their choices away in the process.Allowing tech to think and prioritize for me with a generic next button seems to me a recipe to become an automaton following the proscribed next thing. Maybe I'm just wary of being spoon fed, I like making my own choices like deciding to not be productive sometimes. For example, will this next button ever steer you to Hacker News so you can chase down some rabbit holes and attempt some existential commentary on buttons or will it be another way to keep you r nose to the proscribed grindstone with a sprinkling of sanctioned leisure?