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"Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work (gizmodo.com)

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3613920

https://archive.ph/tR7s6

Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

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[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 12 points 5 hours ago

Not the Onion. This was unexpected...

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 8 hours ago

Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder

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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 24 points 10 hours ago

I like the comment that said the AI is the artist and he's just a commissioner, makes perfect sense.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 5 hours ago

Drag thinks profits from AI art should automatically go to funding an AI Advocacy Commission established by the government to explore questions of AI consciousness and AI rights. The AAC should be devoting resources to solving the hard problem of consciousness and improving working conditions for AIs, in whatever way experts believe is most beneficial to AI welfare.

This is how you stop The Matrix from happening, people!

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 53 minutes ago

Poe's law in full swing in this comment.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 29 minutes ago

Drag is being entirely serious. Drag believes AI is a vegan issue until the hard problem of consciousness is solved in a way that conclusively proves AIs are not capable of experience. We have as much trouble telling if animals like fish are capable of feeling pain as we do with AIs. Drag does not eat fish, and drag does not believe it is right to use AI until we have an answer. Drag thinks the answer might be that using AI is fine, but drag is not a gambler and drag would certainly not gamble with another being's life.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 minutes ago

Then "drag" (whoever that is) anthropomorphises a statistical model, which is stupid.

[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 hours ago

I'm hoping someone with actual talent paints the AI picture and then copyrights it

[-] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

😭

[-] strawberry@kbin.earth 23 points 11 hours ago

eat shit dude

[-] sndmn@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

I'm pretty sure there's a misspelling. It's spelled "douchebag" not "artist".

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago

Agreed.

Get fucked, you no talent ass clown.

[-] Doxanarchy@lemmy.world 136 points 15 hours ago

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago

NGL, I am pretty tired and have my glasses off, thought he was holding a sword and shield and thought this was pretty cool.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

This is great.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 30 points 13 hours ago

Stupid tardigrade doesn't even know how to play a violin

[-] Granite@lemmy.world 34 points 13 hours ago

He’s doing his best!

[-] ABCDE@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

Stupid human doesn't even know what a violin looks like.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 11 hours ago

Good thing it's got a cello then.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 hours ago

One thing I know about violins is that they're smaller than cellos. Cellos are what, 4 feet long? That tardigrade is like 1mm big or something, much smaller than a cello. Therefore, it's holding a violin. Or maybe a bowed mountain dulcimer. /kidding

[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 79 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

per Wikipedia

On September 21, 2022, Allen submitted an application to the us copyright office for registration of the image. Prior to the first formal refusal, the Copyright Office Examiner requested that the request would exclude any features of the image generated by Midjourney. Allen declined the request and requested copyright for the whole image.

So what I'm getting from that is his Photoshop edits aren't significant enough to constitute a copyrightable work on their own and the copyright office was right to deem it a non-human production.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 54 points 14 hours ago

I'm just happy someone at the copyright office knows what they're doing

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[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 10 hours ago

Think he'll try to use a llm as his lawyer?

[-] limelight79@lemm.ee 21 points 12 hours ago

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

Lol.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 84 points 16 hours ago

Another idiot who thinks "prompt engineering" is a real skill and not just another step those companies are using idiots for free AI training.

You ask AI to draw a ninja turtle on a skateboard, and that "effort" they put into phrasing their request well enough for the AI to understand makes the AI learn the 10 past attempts were looking for what the 11th got

And now it won't take ten tries to go that route

Any "skill" by the user has a very short expiration date because the next version won't need it thanks to all the time users spent developing those "skills".

But no one impressed with AI is smart enough to realize that. And since they're the on s training the AI....

Idiots in, idiots out

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 14 hours ago

"Promp engineering" is as useful skill as Google fu used to be.

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[-] frazw@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago

It's not "famous" that should be in inverted commas, but "artist".

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