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Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski's style against his wishes using a LoRA model. While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski's art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5. The debate highlights the blurry line between innovation and infringement in the emerging field of AI art.

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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

His art was not "stolen." That's not an accurate word to describe this process with.

It's not so much that "it was done before so it's fine now" as "it's a well-understood part of many peoples' workflows" that can be used to justify it. As well as the view that there was nothing wrong with doing it the first time, so what's wrong with doing it a second time?

[-] Pulse@dormi.zone 34 points 1 year ago

Yes, it was.

One human artist can, over a life time, learn from a few artists to inform their style.

These AI setups are telling ALL the art from ALL the artists and using them as part of a for profit business.

There is no ethical stance for letting billion dollar tech firms hoover up all the art ever created to the try and remix it for profit.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One human artist can, over a life time, learn from a few artists to inform their style.

These AI setups [...] ALL the art from ALL the artists

So humans are slow and inefficient, what's new?

First the machines replaced hand weavers, then ice sellers went bust, all the calculators got sacked, now it's time for the artists.

There is no ethical stance for letting billion dollar tech firms hoover up all the art ever created to the try and remix it for profit.

We stand on the shoulders of generations of unethical stances.

[-] Pulse@dormi.zone 17 points 1 year ago

"other people were bad so I should be bad to."

Cool.

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