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DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp

(arstechnica.com)
125 points akeck | 1 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.288s | 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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dorkwood ◴[13 Nov 22 08:42 UTC] No.33581243[source]▶
Is it really an education problem? Should the artist care that their images are not actually being stored in a database? Would they say "oh, well now that I know how it works, I'm actually fine with it"?

I suspect their indignation is more to do with their work being consumed without their permission, and then turned into a tool that undermines their value. These tools wouldn't exist without the work of artists. I don't think it's fair to act like no injustice has been done.

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1. friend_and_foe ◴[13 Nov 22 11:42 UTC] No.33582142[source]▶
I suspect their indignation has more to do with the fact that the marginal cost of what they do to feed themselves (so that they can live another day to express themselves, of course) is now close to zero. If we had arrived at these art producing machines by some other means, I doubt that the artists would be pulling any punches, seeing as they suffer all the same.