←back to thread

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: 0.354s | source
Show context
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.

replies(6): >>33580043 #>>33580089 #>>33580091 #>>33580110 #>>33580133 #>>33581243 #
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?

replies(1): >>33580251 #
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.
replies(4): >>33580273 #>>33580364 #>>33580415 #>>33583500 #
1. antifa ◴[13 Nov 22 14:45 UTC] No.33583500[source]▶
What they like even less is being left behind via top-down enforced austerity in an economy of rapidly increasing inequality _after_ their mostly modest and ethical profession suddenly stops existing.