A darkly humorous meme currently circulating online shows an artist lamenting “I was promised that technology would help me balance my checkbook and do my laundry so I would have time to do my art and writing, not technology that does the art and writing so I have more time to balance my checkbook and do my laundry!”, a fine artist and illustrator who has worked on projects for Marvel Studios, Ubisoft, Industrial Light & Magic since the early 2010s, the situation is no laughing matter.
feature story on emerging technologies to help protect human artists against the abuses of generative AI, which had a list of artist studies. The list included friends of mine and people I knew, which was strange. I reached out to some friends whose names I recognized and found out they weren't involved.
No, not at all. They sell it that way, but ethics aside, even if there were an “ethical model,” the tech itself is flawed. AI has a hard time with revisions For instance, an art director might ask for changes that the AI can't handle properly. It doesn’t understand the underlying logic of the image, so it’s terrible for things like armor or equipment, where the form follows function. I can do it faster myself.
Yes and no. The problem that we have is that concept artists and artists like myself, illustrators, the folks that are visual artists in the industry, we're split between two unions, the Costumers Guild and the Art Directors Guild. The other problem is that the bosses and the workers are in the same unions.
In addition to the legal actions, when did you start getting involved in technological countermeasures like Nightshade?