I'm sure you've all seen the AI apps floating around. They create some really cool effects, but sometimes at the cost of stealing artists' work. That is my deterrent from using it, but I see the benefits when it doesn't steal copyrighted works. Do you use AI? What are your thoughts on AI art? What about AI writing? Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images?
AI is an incredible tool that is here to stay - for better or worse... kinda like fire - can be super helpful, or it can be the death of us... I use AI to enhance old photos - I've got Remini on my phone and it does a nice enough job with some photos - not all though as the final result doesn't always look like the person we know and remember. AI writing is fun - I've experimented with giving it roles and prompts and the results have been surprisingly good, though once you've done it a few times, you'll start noticing a pattern... a little robotic and impersonal with a touch of grandeur but good enough for some generic writing along the lines of 'we had a great day walking on the beach' that I can put on my pages instead of the real journaling with names/places/personal detials. However, as someone once said, the bes combination is always a computer AND a human, with the latter making all the difference...
Do you use AI? Not that I know of, although the car told me my battery in the key fob was low and so maybe I do? What are your thoughts on AI art? I have seen some great stuff. What about AI writing? My son has used it. He feels it's great and that's where the future is. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? Sorry, no.
Do you use AI? Yes from other artist. What are your thoughts on AI art? I think it is a development in the graphic industries. When it's done good it looks awesome. People have used other people arts in their work as long as there have been art. What about AI writing? Haven't used it. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? Even if they are royalty free maybe you can't use more than 10. I know Dover had that for their royalty free graphics.
As a creative....I struggle with AI and I'm not sure which side of the fence I land on more. Like anything new or supposedly better, there can be good & bad. It can be a help or a hinderance. Truly only time will tell if this will be good for creatives around the world or not.
Do you use AI? No, but I have played with the AI available in Paint Shop Pro. It's ok. What are your thoughts on AI art? none at this time What about AI writing? unsure about it Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? Nope. Don't plan on using it much at all. Like @LoveItScrapIt said, there can be good or bad or a help or hindrance.
Honestly I am not one bit interested in it so haven’t really been paying it much attention if any at this point.
My son has used it to generate landscapes for a world that is part of a board game he is developing. I find it interesting that Intel(?) has developed and is promoting an app to determine if the image you are viewing is a real person or an AI generated one. I don't see a need for this at this time -- yet why did they develop that? What do they anticipate? I also believe it is like fire - good when controlled but very likely to be bad and perhaps out of control on its own. I have seen those movies... Seriously, in general, I am against AI.
Do you use AI? Yes I talk to Siri. What are your thoughts on AI art? No thoughts. What about AI writing? No thoughts. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? Nope sorry. I don’t think about it much but DH helps keep me informed about how it can be used maliciously so I’m not caught off guard.
Well they've already started doing AI celebrity voices, I know of at least 1 musician/rapper that there is a "song" on social that is NOT his voice and was AI generated. So I assume they can see where this is going, ....which goes back to my statement, help or hinderance...time will tell.
Not to mention the story about a mother that got a phone call from supposed kidnappers of her daughter. They had her daughter's voice and to the mother it sounded exactly like her. The mother was very stressed and believed it was her daughter because her daughter wasn't with her. The daughter is in her teen's I believe. Turns out the daughter was with her father the whole time. The mother is very confused as to how they even got her daughter's voice as she doesn't use SM at all where her voice could have been posted for someone to get hold of. Yeah, AI scares me.
Do you use AI? Like Stephanie said, I think most of us are using it to some extent already. I haven't tried ChatGPT or anything like that yet, but I regularly tell Siri to remind me about things or ask it what something is. What are your thoughts on AI art? What about AI writing? I don't have well developed thoughts yet. I am listening to a lot of podcasts and videos on the topic and trying to understand what's going on though. In general, I love the way technology has improved our lives and I want that, and I think news media always makes the world seem worse/scarier than it really is, but I'm a little wary. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? I have no clue.
I am very hesitant to embrace AI, particularly as a creative who creates their own artwork and has a distinctive writing style. AI has already been seen to undermine intellectual and artistic copyrights by informing itself through the use of other people's art and photography without their permission. It is already causing problems in academic circles as well, as students utilize AI to meet assignments. As a sociologist, I find all of it fascinating and actually a little concerning. Will it further undermine human ingenuity and communication? Critical thinking? Will it have a hand to play in the shaping of prevailing thoughts in the public square? In the media we consume? Will it undermine jobs held by humans (think: why need editors or writers if we can use ChatGPT, why need anything that a computer could do)? Is any of this actually an advancement for humanity? Is it progress or does it hamper it? All of this is fair philosophical and ethical consideration. It remains to be seen how things may play out legally. And we will see to what degree humans, and therefore cultures and societies, embrace it and what kind of impact it will have on innovation, the creative arts and communication. On everything, actually. To some extent it is already happening as AI tech is a part of many day-to-day experiences. What remains to be seen is just how far humans will be comfortable with it. Do you use AI? not for the creation of anything. I utilize AI technology for maps and research mostly. What are your thoughts on AI art? I personally have no plans to use it. What about AI writing? I feel it undermines human creativity and thought, so I am not a fan. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? I do not. eta: there is also a thread in the Scrappy Pad about this topic that had some interesting dialogue and perspectives.
Do you use AI? Honestly, I think we are all already using AI without knowing it. If you are googling things or using Google Maps, you are using AI. What are your thoughts on AI art? I understand people being upset about AI learning from and building on human art but in a lot of ways that's what people do too. Obviously, I don't want AI stealing artists' work directly but I think it's very hard to draw lines in the area of how much borrowing, learning from, inspiration is too much. What about AI writing? Hubby and I talk about this one all the time because he teaches in the field of law and technology, so ChatGPT is all anyone is talking about. I have found the writing to be a little superficial sounding and, of course, a law firm just got in big trouble when they submitted a brief in which ChatGPT had made up a lot of the case citations. So, it's not quite ready for primetime, but my daughter uses it to generate some of the copy for her marketing job and I've heard a lot of people say it is great for generating a "first draft" of something you have to write. I do find the likelihood of massive job losses from AI to be alarming. I'm about ready to retire but I worry for my kids. It is sort of like Walmart, Amazon and now Teemu -- I feel like it's inevitable even if overall, it is bad for society. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images?[/QUOTE] No. I haven't tried this yet but have seen some fun art generated.
Do you use AI? I use Siri and such quite a bit and I've played around with chatGPT a little, but not really for any length of time. We have to do a summer workshop on chatGPT, so I hope to learn quite a bit more. What are your thoughts on AI art? It's pretty fascinating, but I also get that it can pretty sticky when it comes to stealing others art and such. What about AI writing? As a teacher, my first thoughts were all about how kids would use it to cheat or write papers and such, but the more I think about it the more I realize that it's here and the best we can do is teach students how to use it effectively to enhance their writing. I personally love it for helping me come up with jumping off points. I know there is some technology that is supposed to detect if something was written by AI but according to my kiddo, it is far from accurate. He has played around with it quite a bit. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? Not at all, sorry.
Do you use AI? Yes. I use Google to set appointments, alarms, reminders, voice to text. I think all of those are AI. Maybe I'm not fully informed though? What are your thoughts on AI art? There is already so much that is stolen from artists, whether they are songwriters, singers, writers, painters, etc. I think that unless it's used consciously that there will be issues. What about AI writing? I'm on a creative team that uses ChatGPT for prompts to create layouts. I think that's interesting. Do you have any suggestions for AI apps that use royalty-free sources to generate images? No suggestions, but watching for further posts.
I started using Midjourney this year. I was slow to jump on that bandwagon as I was concerned about the use of artists' images without their consent. I am now at a point that I do not see much difference between using AI generated art vs commercial use (such as designer) or royalty free (Pexels for example) images. I still think there is a grey area in how the AI bot was trained. Midjourney is a text to image generator. According to one article, David Holz, the founder and CEO of Midjourney, the AI bot was trained using millions of datasets available on the internet. The grey area is that the original creator of the image for the dataset did not give consent for their image(s) to be used to train the AI bot. Example: Paper quilling is a style the AI Bot can generate. In order for the bot to "understand" this is a paper flower, this is a paper cloud, this is a paper girl, the bot was trained using paper quilling art found on the internet -- but as I understand it, the original artist did not give consent for their art to be used to train the bot. David Holz "...There isn’t really a way to get a hundred million images and know where they’re coming from. It would be cool if images had metadata embedded in them about the copyright owner or something. But that’s not a thing; there’s not a registry. There’s no way to find a picture on the Internet and then automatically trace it to an owner and then have any way of doing anything to authenticate it." Midjourney AI generation - here is an interesting tidbit - paid users of Midjourney AI generated art have the right to request an image be copyrighted (doesn't mean the US Copyright office will grant the copyright). From an online article: "The company is very clear about its Terms of Service and has clarified that only paid members can apply for copyright, and free users are not eligible to do so. If this is not followed, a person can be taken to court. The U.S. Copyright Office states that owning AI art is based on authorship. Since AI art generators like Midjourney are viewed as machines, and only humans can be the authors of an artwork, copyright is dependent on authorship. This is a tricky subject and there is a good article at Theartnewpaper.com, New US copyright rules protect only AI art with 'human authorship'. Now, there is also another ethical discussion to be had, as brought up by Sara - the impact of AI on human development. From my perspective, there is a difference between creativity versus skill. A person who is unskilled in painting, drawing, paper quilling etc. can generate phenomenal art using the AI bot which has the skill of generating pixels on a computer canvas, so to speak. The human has the creativity to generate the image; the bot has the skill to generate pixels on the computer canvas. But the "art" is just that - pixels. I think it is very important that humans continue to learn skills - drawing with pencil and paper, producing watercolors with paint and paper, making real paper quilled art etc. David Holz: "We like to say we’re trying to expand the imaginative powers of the human species. The goal is to make humans more imaginative, not make imaginative machines, which I think is an important distinction." Me: but still, humans should continue to learn how to use their hands, learn the mastery behind creating art. So, even though I use Midjourney to conjure up an image in 3 minutes, on a weekly basis I am still learning to draw (mostly on Procreate these days) and learning to paint etc. But I can safely say my imagination is currently greater than my skill to make portraits and landscape paintings because I am new to making art outside the digital canvas (or by hand within a digital canvas like Procreate). Are artists threatened by AI generated art? In my opinion, to a degree yes. There is huge commercial potential for AI generated art from card making to graphics for advertising. There is at least one comic book on the market with art generated by Midjourney. The book is copyright protected, but each individual piece of art within the comic is not. But it still takes a human to dream up the work. David Holz: "What does it mean when computers are better at visual imagination than 99 percent of humans? That doesn’t mean we will stop imagining. Cars are faster than humans, but that doesn’t mean we stopped walking. When we’re moving huge amounts of stuff over huge distances, we need engines, whether that’s airplanes or boats or cars." David Holz: "Within the next year or two, you’ll be able to make content in real time: 30 frames a second, high resolution. It’ll be expensive, but it’ll be possible. Then, in 10 years, you’ll be able to buy an Xbox with a giant AI processor, and all the games are dreams." David Holz: "Every time you ask the AI to make a picture, it doesn’t really remember or know anything else it’s ever made. It has no will, it has no goals, it has no intention, no storytelling ability. All the ego and will and stories — that’s us. It’s just like an engine. An engine has nowhere to go, but people have places to go. It’s kind of like a hive mind of people, super-powered with technology." Note: from David Holz interview with The Verge. From the Artnewspaper: "The Copyright Office likened some uses of artificial intelligence to more traditional mechanical tools, such as a visual artist’s use of Photoshop or a musician creating different sounds through a guitar pedal, which would be permitted for those seeking copyright registration." Last but not least - derivative work - and copyright infringement. Some images generated from Midjourney are truly text to image. A Midjourney user however can import a .jpg of a copyrighted image, then input additional words that direct the modification of the .jpg. This is derivative work. According to an online article, there is a lawsuit filed against Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and Deviant Art for copyright infringement. But this is tricky and I'll end with this quote: “It is possible that an AI work does not present the underlying work’s copyrightable content at all, but merely learned from it."
