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I post a lot of criticism about AI.
Despite being above-average excited about AI for the last 12 years.
It is the ethics, not the tech, I have issues with.
This isn't a "Prompter vs Artist" issue.
This is a "path of humanity" issue.
Benjamin (leaving for ๐ฆ@benjami.no)
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Benjamin (leaving for ๐ฆ@benjami.no)
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art, gamedev, accessibility.
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- Finally somebody is expressing the appropriate level of vocal outrage at Google's mass adoption of AI.Googleโs monopoly ruined what search engines couldโve been, and now AI is making it worse.
00:00 - Greg Rutkowski, a legendary artist infamously dehumanised as a default prompt in many AI interfaces and used in millions of [re]generations, has started using Nightshade to poison the images he puts online. ๐ Historic moment of artists fighting back.Itโs been a while since the Nightshade premiere, but I finally had a free while to apply it to one of my recent paintings and I strongly recommend to you to do the same ๐ Link to the Nightshade: nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html #nightshade #noai
- Oh hey, look at that, a tech company serving artists that DIDN'T use [re]generative AI this week. And actually commissioned an artist as part of their social media strategy.๐คฉ (And has taken a strong stance against [re]generative AI in general due to their unethical datasets)One of our first @alexxgrigg #ProcreateDreams commissions โ just a pal on a very tranformative and fluid journey into something new. ๐ฑ
00:00 - I think this encapsulates the Palworld discourse.
- There's no way to "adapt or die" to AI. There's no way to overcome or beat it. Because the arena is Capitalism, not Art, and the fight was never fair to begin with. How can you beat something that literally steals your effort and produces infinite derivatives. #TeamHuman ๐งต1/5
- Just a reminder to US artists out there: removing watermarks on Copyrighted work is not allowed. Section 1202 of the DMCA. Watermarks are CMI: Copyright Management Information. You can open Civil Suit for 2,500$ - or more than 25,000$ PER infringement. Know your rights.
- Last night, two communities clashed. An AI [re]generated image had won a Cover Art contest. Artists quickly saw it was AI, but Authors were unconvinced: they wanted reasonable proof, not hearsay. (Mark Lawrence, the host, has been nothing but gracious. Do not bother him) ๐งต/?For the latest take on the #SPFBO cover contest AI controversy: mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2023/05/ai-or-โฆ tl:dr - it looks certain the cover contained AI generated content and the voluntary withdrawal is now a disqualification.
- So apparently the whole debacle was a lot worse than I originally thought.
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02:58A #BehindTheScenes look at Damiรกn Gaumeโs winning video for Any Colour You Like in Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon 50th Anniversary Animation Video Competition. - They used voice actors, but don't credit them at all. Their voices were fed through an AI filter to change pitch and timbre. Yet "AI" gets credit? "AI" can't replace humans fully, but the marketing and tech WILL reduce the perceived value of human work and expression.
Myst creator's new game has loads of AI-generated stuff in it: bit.ly/3IZwkzi - This genuinely breaks my heart. This was what everyone was warning SAG-AFTRA about. This is why everyone was worried. Not to sow dissent, but genuine worry. Scanning for AI can not be a condition to get work. Otherwise, you are iced out. Coercion is not consent.This is the post from my friend who just lost work because he declined being scanned. @sagaftra Iโm still completely confused as to how you let this happen. Also curious as to how much money these AI companies paid you to stand with them instead of actual human actors.
- For authors who want to get cover art done, I would avoid this artist. ๐งต1/3 #CreateDontScrape
- The new Linkin Park video uses a Stable Diffusion Anime filter (based on 600+ million copyrighted images) over all the footage. The claim saying the AI was trained on original art, simply means it was FINETUNED on original art. It's still Stable Diffusion.
00:11The countdown has begun to the world premiere of โLostโ music video tomorrow at 9pm PST. Set your reminder for the YouTube premiere: lprk.co/lostvideo Directed by @pplpleasr1 & @maciej_kuciara - "It's currently not possible to opt out since this is just an experiment" -says the trillion dollar company. I love being experimented on against my will.Replying to @shinyycatherine@shinyycatherine sorry to hear you're not liking it! it's currently not possible to opt out since this is just an experiment. but if you get a response that you feel is unhelpful or irrelevant, you can let us know by submitting feedback via these steps: goo.gle/3ySHg00
