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My friend the graphic designer changed my mind on AI art ethics
I was at a coffee shop in Denver last week and my friend Maya, who does freelance branding, told me AI art tools are just another medium like photography was in the 1800s. She said photographers got the same hate for "stealing" from painters back then, and now we call it art. So is the real problem just that we're scared of new tech, or is there actually something different about AI taking from specific artists without permission?
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blairm776d ago
@scott.alex asking if she'd be cool with that really cuts to the heart of it. That's the part that feels different from photography - a photo doesn't learn from your specific brush strokes and spit them back out without credit. Maya's comparison works until you think about how the machine is trained on actual people's work that they never agreed to.
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michael8036d ago
Wait, is @blairm77 saying the artist didn't even know their work was being used? I thought there was at least some opt-in thing with those training sets. That's insane if they just scraped it without asking. It's one thing to take inspiration from a style you see online, but a machine literally copying your brush strokes and calling it original is wild. That's not learning, that's just theft with extra steps.
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