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Midjourney, or the artists – who do you agree with? 🤔
The artists.
Midjourney…. They need an easier name.
The artists.
Artists. Midjourney and the big AI companies are making massive bank off our work, they should have paid royalties or not scraped all our work….sharing the profits would have meant millions of artists supporting AI, rather than seeing it as a commercial cash-grab, an enclosure act. They did that badly, and will likely suffer – or indeed have no artists to copy from, as they give up.
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I think this is going to open, and I’m sure it actually has already, a whole new niche of attorneys to deal with these exact lawsuits. I took a day seminar from an attorney and he specialized in cloth pattern copyrights.
What an interesting specialization! I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall of that seminar, haha. A lot of cloth patterns have many similarities.
@@WholesaleTed He did mostly clothing. Burberry was one of his biggest clients. The seminar was on copyrights, trademarks and registrations. It was quite the seminar jammed into just 2 hours. It could have been double that time because there is so much to know.
Patterns like recipea are another one – instructions to make something….a legal minefield.
By this logic, everyone is violating copyright law because they saw the image they have under copyright.
They can sue all they want. It’s the old dataset that nobody uses anymore. Literally nobody.
They now train on alternative datasets. And we can train our own AI data with our own artwork with as few as 8 images now. Not 8million.
I’m with midjourney on this one for sure. It’s another artist tool. It’s the users/sellers who need to be careful of copywrite laws. With this newest digital explosion, I think more information needs to be available on image copywrite laws, imop. I can take any art history book from my university years and “re-paint” nearly any image in there… do I? No, because it’s illegal. I think if people are using ANY form of artist tools, it’s on them to be responsible for their own resulting products. I’m trying to stay objective here and not rant, but seriously there are literally hundreds of ways to copy other images, midjourney, photoshop, Dalle etc should be celebrated for their ingenuity, not vilified. I think it all comes down to the fear… is a “machine” better than a human?❤
How is it illegal to copy old artworks that are in the public domain? That makes no sense. Artists are legally allowed to use other artists work as influence in their own art — that is in fact almost the entirety of what “art” is. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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I think the artist should make similar art to Midjourney art now and see if it files a lawsuit against them. What i saw was similar but not the same so I’m siding with the AI companies. I think these artist should be using these services instead of suing them.
If I was judging this lawsuit I would probably require the artists to file on a case-by-case basis to determine if individual images meet the requirement. Then if there are enough of them a judge could submit a cease and desist order to stop the AI company from continuing.
Every single corporation (yes government too is a private corporation under the guise of being public) stores information on all of us.
I wonder if that means they could digitally recreate us, like Stable Diffusion. 🤔
I think they took SD and overtrained specific pictures, then prompted it and voila…they have an overtrained baked in image. its a fake, and not a fake picture as in copywrite, but a fake problem. I hope they are found tampering and sued for libel or something. This needs to be put to bed.
Storing the data points of the work so that the work can be reproduce,
is in fact storing the work within the program.
Everything can be represented digitally with data points including an individuals voice.
In order to represent an individuals voice, advanced tech would start out with recordings of that individuals voice. The tech would then convert the necessary bits and pieces of the recordings, the vowels sounds, consonants, vocal inflections etc, and the various sounds of the individual speaking into data points. Those data points and not the recordings would then be utilized to recreate the individuals voice. The reason to do this is speed. A computer can access data points much faster than it can open an audio file and play the needed snippet of a recording.
Whether audio or an image, the same method would be used.
When the lawsuits finally come to a conclusion most of the Artists on that name list will either starve to death or declare bankruptcy, most of these investor backed Ai companies come with some heavy caliber lawyers and before they invest $billions, most of them have asked on the white paper “what about copyright issues?” they have already have a solution. If anyone have ever asked a Billionaire for investment they would know its not easy for them to fork over that money.
It is interesting because a lot of the big companies AI art generators didn’t get included in this lawsuit. Midjourney is tiny compared to OpenAI & DALL-E yet they are being sued, not them. So you take OpenAI & their DALL-E AI Art generator. Despite being now the most popular AI art generator in the world (I think – I’d have to double check!) it’s not included in the lawsuit, and so any results from this, wouldn’t affect them.
Bing Image creator, is also powered by DALL E3. Those exact words are written right under the pictures we created.
Midjourney. You are the coolest, smartest, funniest, and cutest content producer in this space. my exclamation point key and the whole numbers row on my keyboard doesn’t work, but the warranty replacement is on the way.
I think anyone who has their art, books, documents sucked up by AI should be paid a royalty like they do with music.
If the purpose of the artist is to correct these AI image generators against ethical practices, then I support the artist. But if the artist wants these AI generators shut down, the all I can say it “nobody can stop technological progress.”
The comments here are really balanced here and thoughtful. Probably the best I’ve seen on any channel on this topic. I get the appeal of hyping the headlines of “THIS” AI news could change everything but every lawsuit against AI keeps losing for a reason. An image can be copyrighted. A style can not. If style could copyrighted, all the videos on how to make cookies just like this famous bakery or how to get the guitar sound of Jimi Hendrix would be shut down. Even the judge said the idea of all AI being theft because it trained on publicly available images is grasping at straws. If someone has actually stolen something, that’s theft. But the idea of “could produce” an image is not the same as “producing an image.” Where’s the website selling “almost versions” of famous artists for cheap? Who is saying don’t buy this genuine artist when you can get Stable Diffusion for less? I don’t know a single individual making AI art who doesn’t love art and wish other artists the best. I’ve had the time of my life learning more and beyond just prompts but about aspect ratio and types of lighting and different colors and contrasts. I could care less if I can sell it. Again, if there’s a specific violation and someone has stolen an image and posted it as their own, they should point it out and if it’s an exact copy, that’s theft and it will be taken down. “Sorta kinda” looks like it? No. That’s not theft. AI image creation is already apart of every major platform from Google to Adobe to Microsoft to Amazon for various purposes. There’s going to be more AI art and it will evolve just like everything else.
There were artists who lost their jobs when Adobe Photoshop came out. More lost jobs when Wacom tabets came out. Canva probably put a lot of graphic designers out of business. But Adobe also helped bring forth all kinds of new artists and create new jobs. I wish everyone could do things exactly as they want to but we’re all in the same boat and trying to create beautiful things with the skills and tools that fit us.
Having your art trashed in every era is a rite of passage. There is always an old guard with an Us Vs. Them letting in one or two new people as spectacles. There’s always a friendly air of condescension and pity for those new wayward artists who just don’t know any better. Getting hoodwinked by that new AI fad! 1962: Did you hear Andy Warhol is actually painting over pictures and calling it art? We “experts” know the “real” art is (insert favorite here).
If AI art seems to be an oxymoron to you, you join a storied group of those who feared what’s next.
Every new sea change in tech has people panicking. It’s normal. Keep in mind a lot of the jobs artists have today were made possible because of tablets and easier web interfaces. In the beginning of all tech, licensing gets worked out. That’s what happened with music when sampling came out. That’s what happened with music when DJ’s played festivals and people complained that all the DJ had to do was push a button. Their playlists got licensed. But obviously, it’s so much more than pushing a button. That’s why there are music festivals everywhere. There will always be cheap clients. And there will always be new tech that chips away at someone’s specialty. Go visit some pro AI art channels and you’ll see people who are excited to create. This is their first step into the art world. It’s important to discern between people with bad intentions and good ones.
Ahh.. but we’re still in the “AI Art isn’t real art era” aren’t we?
Can you imagine going back in time to 1962 saying Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn is going to be worth $195 million?
This is what all art is up against. Pick an era. Someone is saying “but this new art is sacrilege! It’s not even art!”
No one ever sees the irony of them saying it. Warhol got sued for “stealing” a photo and painting over it. He settled out of court. Would any major museum reject his art today?
In the early 1800’s, If you wanted a portrait you went to an artist who would paint one. Then the camera came out. Lots of artists trashed photographers. Then it became an art form. Then film came out. Some dismissed it as a novelty. Then it became an art form. Then digital video came out and the filmmakers said only my 70mm print will do. Some said no one who uses digital video is a “real” auteur. Then it became the standard. Then YouTube came out and everyone was making videos and literally creating their own channel. Like this one. So here are all these people using formerly “fake” tech for their own benefit while being the arbiters of what is real and who is a fraud. Go look up how many people are using AI art. 15 million users at one of them.
Somewhere in that group of people are future art forms. And at some point in the future, they’ll be doing the same thing you are. No matter how superior you may feel and no matter how right you may think you are, never trash someone trying to make art. If you don’t want the art you make trashed, show it with your example. It’s ok to be scared and yes – stop anyone trying to take from you. But when they’re “all” trying to take from you, none of it is “real” art and you somehow think you can see into the hearts of 15 million people, I would rethink my approach.
If you make art there will always be someone who loves what you do and there will always be challenges to make money with it. Waiting for AI users to get tired and mocking them doesn’t seem like a winning strategy. Thanks for listening. I wish everyone here success however they define it. A video worth watching for you: https://youtu.be/X9RYuvPCQUA?&t=10
For example how can they sue a machine for making an image of a celebrity because it use a photo as a reference, thousands of artist use photos in the same way ,, are they suing fan art too ? AI is here and it not going anywhere its an equalizer
A student may study under Van Gogh and so hold all the information of how to paint exactly like Van Gogh. But unless he is copying his pictures straight up or signing them Van Gogh… I say he’s good to go. Mastering a style is what fuels many artists.