Nanitchkov spoke out for artists whose labor had been used free of charge in the creation of AI art, which he wrote in the post is “created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics.” ArtStation was accused of not doing enough to prevent artists’ work from being scraped from the site, and for not suitably flagging when work uploaded to the site was AI-generated. Nanitchkov’s experience with the issue began on ArtStation, a platform for digital artists which was founded in 2014 and has over 3.4 million users worldwide. On December 5, 2022, the first ‘No To AI-Generated Images’ post was made by the Bulgarian illustrator Alexander Nanitchkov, accompanied by the #notoaiart hashtag. AI can undercut a skilled artist’s economic viability.”ĭutch artist in a December 19th post compared the issue to illegally downloading music ( a landmark court case which took place in 2010, finding the creator of LimeWire - a free music download software believed to be installed in over a third of all computers around the world in 2007 - guilty of copyright infringement and inciting others to do the same), asking “why is our work as visual artists any different?” “I don’t think AI is a bad thing, but i do think that the way artists are being treated, including myself, is extremely wrong!” posted the Dutch digital artist (screenshot Hyperallergic) It undermines the hours, weeks, and months artists put into conceiving and creating their work and has the ability to disenfranchise them in a matter of minutes. News broadcaster and arts consultant Robyne Robinson explained this issue of “scraping” to Hyperallergic, saying: “’Scraped’ and reconstituted art is basically theft of an artists’ work. Digital artist wrote in a post on December 15: “I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product … platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.” The key issue people seem to be taking with AI art is that the artists who created the images from which the programs were trained were not consulted and are not remunerated for their work. The images used in the datasets are publicly available on the internet, but Getty Images has started its legal proceedings against Stability AI for breach of IP rights, and other lawsuits are brewing.ĭigital artist Instagram post against AI-generated art (screenshot Hyperallergic) These programs have been trained to create images from text prompts, using millions of pairs of images and captions from the internet to “‘learn” from, and becoming more accurate at the process with every interaction. When an advert for AI copywriting service “Jasper” came up on my feed, I, too, became concerned about the future security of my work as a writer in an ever-technologically advancing landscape.ĪI art is generated using software now readily available to online audiences such as DeepAI, DeepDream, and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2. AI-generated images, from quirky profile pictures showing users as fantasy characters, to reimaginings of famous works from art history, were popping up everywhere, and questions about the technology’s future use and current methods quickly grew. The recent popularization of AI software such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT has made AI the topic of the moment. I had not spoken to the group being hurt at the hands of AI image generation: digital artists. I had just written my last piece for Hyperallergic, looking at Artificial Intelligence’s capacity to relay and become part of art history, and I realized that the interviews I had conducted for the article had all been with pro-AI voices. In December of last year, variations on a simple image - a general prohibition symbol crossing through the word AI with “NO TO AI GENERATED IMAGES” beneath it - began popping up on my Instagram feed. ![]() “Current AI ‘art’ is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics,” wrote illustrator Alexander Nanitchkov on Instagram post (screenshot Hyperallergic)
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