What used to be just complaints on forums and social networks is now a manifestation. On Tuesday (13), artists who promote their work on the ArtStation started a campaign against the opening that the platform has given to art generated by artificial intelligence (AI)🇧🇷 The result is a sequence of protest images occupying the community’s homepage.
Originally created by Alexander Nanitchkov, the campaign image reads as follows: “no to AI generated images” (“no to AI-generated images”).
According to kotaku, the demonstration was started by artists Nicholas Kole and Imogen Chayes, and gained momentum in a matter of hours. Pudera: ArtStation is one of the largest internet communities for designers, illustrators and the like.
The web was filled with artificially generated images after the emergence of tools like Dall-E 2🇧🇷 Stable Diffusion and Midjourney🇧🇷 All are based on artificial intelligence mechanisms that, trained with millions of images, can generate art in a few seconds.
All the user needs to do is type in a phrase or a combination of words and the AI will generate matching images. A lot of them don’t make sense — that’s what makes these tools fun for a lot of people. However, it is possible to generate stunning artwork with the right tweaks.
ArtStation responds
As the protest image was replicated on a large scale, the ArtStation created a help page to give your take on AI-generated art. But the explanation did not please the artists bothered by this “fashion”.
Basically, the platform says that the user must publish works owned by him or authorized by the original author. But its guidelines do not prevent AI from being used as a tool for this.
There are also artists concerned about using their collections to train artificial intelligence tools. About this, ArtStation announced the plan to add tags (labels) to the platform for the artist to indicate if his work can be used by AIs.
If so, the artist can decide whether the definition applies to commercial or non-commercial AI tools only. If negative, the platform usage policy will have specific terms to validate the ban.
ArtStation also reinforced that it does not have agreements with companies that extract images and that it does not license its users’ content to third parties.
Novel far from the end
The subject will still give rise to many discussions. While some platforms already banned or restricted AI-generated imagesothers try to avoid radical decisions, like ArtStation itself.
For artists, what is at stake is the loss of space for their works to art that, as they are generated via computer, are created quickly and in large volumes.
But, yes, the scenario in which the AI “steals” jobs from artists is also being considered. This possibility already worries even anime and manga professionals🇧🇷
Meanwhile, the “no to AI generated images” movement is gaining momentum. In addition to ArtStation, artists have been protesting AI-generated imagery on social media with hashtags like #notoaiart and #saynotoaiart🇧🇷
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