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DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp

(arstechnica.com)
125 points akeck | 2 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.939s | source
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charcircuit ◴[13 Nov 22 04:12 UTC] No.33579956[source]▶
Looking at the comment section it seems that people struggle to understand how it works and thinks it is literally copying parts of people's images.

Educating people about such a technical topic seems very difficult especially since people get emotional of their work being used.

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kadoban ◴[13 Nov 22 04:33 UTC] No.33580089[source]▶
It's worse than copying parts of images, it's replacing artists.

I know because I'm literally working on setting up Dreambooth to do what I'd otherwise have to pay an artist to do.

And not only is it replacing artists, it's using their own work to do so. None of these could exist without being trained on the original artwork.

Surely you can imagine why they're largely not happy?

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toomuchtodo ◴[13 Nov 22 05:05 UTC] No.33580251[source]▶
No one is happy when technology renders them obsolete or drives the marginal cost of what they produce to zero.
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kadoban ◴[13 Nov 22 05:13 UTC] No.33580273[source]▶
And in my lifetime it'll probably come for coders too.

What happens to society when none of the workers are needed anymore, and any pretense of it being anything other than solely "the rich get richer" disappears?

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1. toomuchtodo ◴[13 Nov 22 05:19 UTC] No.33580307[source]▶
Transition to a superior compatible economic system? It’s all I’ve got honestly as a suggestion. The technology is coming regardless.
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2. kadoban ◴[13 Nov 22 05:31 UTC] No.33580365[source]▶
Yeah, that's about the only real choice, but how messy will it be getting there? Certain political parties will absolutely burn everything down before they let anything like that happen.