Is AI Stealing My Art?

[sanbie]

I am getting old...I remember when I first started using poser...how people were jumping up and down...saying it's not art...the program is doing it for you lol...
To me ANY form of art is creative and if it helps you get to where your mind is telling you what you want it to look like...then go for it!!


Edited to add...
I love postwork...and I use it on EVERY image I render/make...does that make me a bad person...NO it does not...just another form of expression!

[Aelin]

Daz AI isn't good at all imo. I tried it, and it's bad for the hands for example. How can it be bad for hands when it's based on a 3D stuff?
Anyway, I like to play with AI time to time (Stable Diffusion online) because even with 3D I can't do some things I wished to do. Nothing is perfect, but it's enough for I'm pleased most of time. And it happens I share a piece in the FA gallery. If I had to share all I do, you would be flooded.
But I start to think to perhaps use few in png then printed for scrapbooking (we haven't many models of postal cards in our little town, that's why I started a little to do such things).

[AmirA]

Correct. Yes I understand AI on sites as well and yes I render in Daz.
Just my 2c I added. I was more talking about physical art in general.

[parkdalegardener]

If you look at the threads here you will notice that most any that use AI, myself included; use it as a tool in the process and not as the process in and of itself. Straight prompt to output image really doesn't supply a reasonable result without user intervention.

As a for instance; many here use DAZ as their content provider and render suite. Though I do not use DAZ myself I know that they offer an AI enhancement tool that works with their software. I don't see a lot of it in the galleries but it is around.

I am a traditional artist. I am a 3D artist. I am a traditional animator with major screen credits and I am a computer animator with lesser known work. To me it isn't about the tools one uses; it's about the results they achieve in realizing their vision.

[AmirA]

AI....Is it good or bad?
Well I am a fine artist that paints on canvas. We share our work everywhere to show, etc. As so many steals our work, I do add watermarks to my work or downscale the pixels for zooming in to make the image not usable or low reso.
Yes its here to stay and no we cannot get past it, but you still see it everywhere. Especially on Facebook with all the AI images going around. Looking close to the details of hands and eyes is freaky.

But as an artist you can use AI as a tool. But then some misuse it for their art, etc. Not sure if AI is used for renders here. For me I wont use AI for paintings or renders. I try to stay unique in my art styles.

[thelufias]

Like you I do not associate with X in any way whatsoever.  Didn't like Twitter to begin with.  Started posting some of our winners up there but wasn't worth it.  To much other useless crap on it. 

[parkdalegardener]

Hehehe. That's great. No doubt in response to the Sports Illustrated foolishness last week where they were found to be publishing such articles.

I wrote the original thread so long ago I should update some things. Unlike a lot of large language models that were frozen once training started. Means that a lot of information may be out of date leading to errors as well.

I don't do X (Twitter) but Elon Mush; I mean Musk, has rolled out his AI hate bot. I mean Chat Bot. His claim is that with his new AI, GROK; he can keep LLMs (large language models) current. He trained it on 2 months of Twitter posts. He feels that letting it out in the world will provide edgy commentary and humor on X. Really? Bet a whole heck of a lot of his own drivel was used in the training set. After all; the two months of training data are on Twitter posts only made after he purchased the platform.

[thelufias]

Speaking of which....Just got done visiting one of my favorite places ~ SpaceWeather.Com....

They've put this up on their main page:

This is an AI Free Zone! Text created by ChatGPT and other Large Language Models is spreading rapidly across the Internet. It's well-written, artificial, frequently inaccurate. If you find a mistake on Spaceweather.com, rest assured it was made by a real human being.

[parkdalegardener]

Exactly.

[thelufias]

I'm a PSP (Paint Shop Pro) guy....Have been when JASC put it out to market and "J's" sister sent me her version 2 since she didn't use it anymore...  32 Discs to load...but it was worth it...and I've been updating PSP every year....

Some folks have just got to realize AI is here to stay no matter the argument.... This is what my 2022 version has:

Paint Shop Pro 22