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AI Art + New Watermarks
3 years ago
Not all who wander are lost.
The open internet is being crawled without artist's/photographer's permissions to train AI*. Private medical photos have been stolen**. Entire galleries of dead artists are being uploaded to train AI, with no consideration at all for the artist's wishes or their family***
It's not just "Oh, well if you don't like it, don't participate" because trust me, if I could confidently step aside I would, but I cannot with any reasonable measures stop someone determined to steal or even profit from my work.
The effort of making my art in a small, 1-on-1 sphere prevents me from policing the wider internet for violations of my trust or abuses of my work, more or less.
I will not, now or ever, take action for someone stealing a design for a mug or magnet, tracing my work, reuploading my work to a gallery site without credit. As the creator, I also kind of don't care. It's social courtesy more than anything.
Using a machine to learn based on an artist's body of work should be compensated after gaining consent. At the moment the technology is still new; there's easy tells and ways to know-but in the future that may not be the case.
These engines work by making a collage, one that uses hundreds or thousands of images to piece things together. They do not generate a new image by their own work; every piece is a gestalt of other images.
Many AI gens-even PAID ones-have been caught red-handed with work that has watermarks, signatures, and flooded submissions in protest to violating the consent of the userbase of the art site in question****
I hate it, but I'll be adding "invisible" ugly watermarks on every piece. This is a burden on me, but my only other recourse is not posting anything. I know AI gens are not allowed to be posted here, but am just making an update to explain the change.
Sources:
*https://www.engadget.com/dall-e-gen.....160034656.html
**https://arstechnica.com/information.....ning-data-set/
***https://restofworld.org/2022/ai-bac.....anime-artists/
****https://arstechnica.com/information.....rator-dreamup/
and
****https://petapixel.com/2022/12/19/ar.....ge-generators/
It's not just "Oh, well if you don't like it, don't participate" because trust me, if I could confidently step aside I would, but I cannot with any reasonable measures stop someone determined to steal or even profit from my work.
The effort of making my art in a small, 1-on-1 sphere prevents me from policing the wider internet for violations of my trust or abuses of my work, more or less.
I will not, now or ever, take action for someone stealing a design for a mug or magnet, tracing my work, reuploading my work to a gallery site without credit. As the creator, I also kind of don't care. It's social courtesy more than anything.
Using a machine to learn based on an artist's body of work should be compensated after gaining consent. At the moment the technology is still new; there's easy tells and ways to know-but in the future that may not be the case.
These engines work by making a collage, one that uses hundreds or thousands of images to piece things together. They do not generate a new image by their own work; every piece is a gestalt of other images.
Many AI gens-even PAID ones-have been caught red-handed with work that has watermarks, signatures, and flooded submissions in protest to violating the consent of the userbase of the art site in question****
I hate it, but I'll be adding "invisible" ugly watermarks on every piece. This is a burden on me, but my only other recourse is not posting anything. I know AI gens are not allowed to be posted here, but am just making an update to explain the change.
Sources:
*https://www.engadget.com/dall-e-gen.....160034656.html
**https://arstechnica.com/information.....ning-data-set/
***https://restofworld.org/2022/ai-bac.....anime-artists/
****https://arstechnica.com/information.....rator-dreamup/
and
****https://petapixel.com/2022/12/19/ar.....ge-generators/
