11mo ago

Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I find that i can spot AI Images fairly easily these days, especially the sort of fantastical tableaus that get posted to the various AI communities around lemmy. I'm tired of seeing them; it all looks the same to me. Was wondering if im being too sensitive, or if other people are similarly bored of the constant unimaginative AI spam...

For the record, I block any explicit AI Art communities that pop up in the feed, but there are more every day...

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At this point I've just blocked every AI art community that I come across. The art itself is rarely interesting and it's really easy to spot. Kinda wish lemmy had more artists, would love some human-made stuff to balance it out.
- Some of us are a lot more hesitant about internet-publicly sharing work now, since it'll likely be scraped and used for someone else's profit.
  Rational worry or not, I know I just don't post what I've been working on because of that. I know I'm not some artistic genius, but I still don't like my data being hoovered up for any purpose, be they privacy concerns or training models without my explicit consent. Same way when I show my work IRL I wouldn't be happy if someone was dragging around a photocopier, or taking high-res photos of everything I do. Granted, I have the same concerns about even posting comments, but that's had the upside of my posting less.
  
  I totally get this concern. Copyright law seems to barely benefit the small artist when a large tech company can "train" their AI on others work without their consent. I personally would love to see all the LLM producers be held accountable for the IP theft they have perpetrated on such a massive scale.
  
  Copyright law shouldn't be a thing. I personally think LLMs have done a great job showing everyone how bad it is.
  
  Its just concentrating power in large tech companies who are stealing to profit. The great job they've done is find yet another loophole in an already broken system. They are not "showing everyone" anything... People, largely, dont give a shit about that kind of thing. Thats why there are loopholes to exploit in the first place.
  
  I love this strawman so freaken much.
  If the law is unjust does that mean the criminal is good? No.
  If the law is unjust doesn't that mean the criminal is bad? No.
  Take the worst most vile corporation in human history, partner them with thirty other of the most disgusting inhuman monsters of a corporation. A true legend of doom! Then have your legion of doom take advantage of a small legal hole in the copyright system. Is the copyright system now a good just system because very bad people got around it? Was it a good justice system before that?
  The moral character of a person and how good the law is are seperate independent facts. I don't care that some big tech is exploiting the hole I don't care if the nicest person whomever lived was. The law is shit and I won't defend a shit system. Me attacking a bad law is not me defending a lawbreaker.
  The good news is because it is groups with deep pockets breaking this shit system is regular folks have a shot of being free of it. Me vs a giant media company? I will lose. A billionaire against one? They might win. Once it is understood that running something thru an AI removes the copyright the rest of us can gain.
  
  Lol at calling my argument a strawman. Classic projection.
  
  Hey instead of pointing out how imperfect I am why not just defend your argument?
  
  Oh sorry I forgot to ask. How is copying the same as stealing? If I take your money you no longer have it, and I do. If I copy your idea do you still have your idea?

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