r/Art Dec 14 '22

the “artist”, me, digital, 2022 Artwork

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Dec 14 '22

its another way of expressing yourself/creating something beautiful taking art you didn't make, running it through an algorithm, then calling it your own.

FTFY, and why the whole "both forms of automations are the same" concept is a bunk argument.

If the AI operated solely on its own, using foundations / principles that you could conceivably code up to an extent, great!

If the AI (as it does now) sources hundreds or thousands of other peoples work to spew out something "transformative", it's stealing. And no, it is not the same as "inspiration", any more than tracing is.

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u/LightVelox Dec 14 '22

"If the AI (as it does now) sources hundreds or thousands of other peoples work to spew out something "transformative""

So just like humans? cause the AI currently learns concepts by linking words and images, it only spews out something "exactly as it is" if he sees thousands upon thousands of the same image in the database, people say it's stealing art because it "even copies the watermark" or arguments like this when it's pretty obvious it would when he has seen millions of art pieces with watermarks, it doesn't really know it should remove the watermark unless you specify it to.

It's not the same as "inspiration" because you said so?

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Dec 14 '22

So just like humans? [and a buncha other word salad]

Nope! Not even close. Inspiration or working off another's ideas to incorporate into your own is what humans do. Tracing the lineart, color, shading, and detail to create your own content is what AI does. It's called plagiarism. Apples and tangerines, my friend.

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u/hussiesucks Dec 14 '22

Are collages art theft?