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Do you know how they recreated his style? I couldn’t find such information or frankly have enough understanding to know how.
But if they either use his works directly or works created by another GAI with his name/style in the prompt, my personal feeling is that would still be unethical, especially if they charge money to generate his style of art without compensating him.
Plus, I find that the opt-out mentality really creepy and disrespectful
That's really the big thing, not just here but any material that's been used to train on without permission or compensation. The difference is that most of it is so subtle it can't be picked out, but an artist style is obviously a huge parameter since his name was being used to call out those particular training aspects during generations. It's a bit hypocritical to say you aren't stealing someone's work when you stick his actual name in the prompt. It doesn't really matter how many levels the art style has been laundered, it still originated from him.
It is unconditionally impossible to own an artistic style. "Stealing a style" cannot be done.
Just wait until you can copywrite a style. Guess who will end up owning all the styles.
Spoiler, it's wealthy companies like Disney and Warner. Oh you used cross hatching? Disney owns the style now you theif.
Copyright is fucked. Has been since before the Mickey mouse protection act. Our economic system is fucked. People would rather fight each other and new tools instead of rallying against the actual problem, and it's getting to me.
You're right, copyright won't fix it, copyright will just enable large companies to activate more of their work extract more from the creative space.
But who will benefit the most from AI? The artists seem to be getting screwed right now, and I'm pretty sure that Hasbro and Disney will love to cut costs and lay off artists as soon as this blows over.
Technology is capital, and in a capitalist system, that goes to benefit the holders of that capital. No matter how you cut it, laborers including artists are the ones who will get screwed.
Me, I'll benefit the most. I've been using a locally running instance of the free and open source AI software Stable Diffusion to generate artwork for my D&D campaigns and they've never looked more beautiful!
Same here. It's awesome being able to effectively "commission" art for any random little thing the party might encounter. And sometimes while generating images there'll be surprising details that give me new ideas, too. It's like brainstorming with ChatGPT but in visual form.