What are professional artists say about Stable Diffusion / AI art? Spoiler: some artists hate it and would like to ban training with their art

Mittlerweile haben sich nach der Explosion der ganzen KI-basierten Bildgeneratoren viele Künstler und professionelle Grafiker zu Wort gemeldet.

Im Prinzip gibt es zwei Gruppen. Die einen sehen KI eher als neues, nützliches Werkzeug, um ihre Arbeit noch effizienter zu erledigen, ihre Kreativität und Möglichkeiten zu steigern, während die andere der Entwicklung eher skeptisch gegenübersteht.

Ein Teil hasst KI sogar, vermutlich aus Angst, dass die eigene Arbeit weniger geschätzt wird, wenn KIs auf Knopfdruck bessere Bilder generieren können als man selbst. Daher fordern sie Verbote. Viele Webseiten lehnen KI-generierten Content mittlerweile ab. Auch das Trainieren mit den eigenen Bildern würden sie der KI am liebsten verbieten.

"Rise against the Machine" sozusagen.

Wer wird diesen Kampf eurer Meinung nach gewinnen? Ist es legitim, dass KIs mit urheberrechtlich geschützten, aber im Internet öffentlich zugänglichen Bildern und Texten trainiert werden? Lernen Menschen nicht auch von bestehenden Kunstwerken und lassen sich von diesen inspirieren?

What are professional artists say about Stable Diffusion / AI art?

Artists vs. AI, AI-generated illustration (Stable Diffusion)

Vin Hill

I'm a senior concept artist working in the games industry and we talk about this a lot as you can imagine. I don't agree with anyone that will says AI will replace all of us, but It will absolutely reduce our numbers drastically in the next decade.

I hear the blasé analogies every day "printing press, film cutters" etc. but those technologies came slowly over decades and we're not talking about the shifted cutters to become digital editors here, we're talking about complete displacement.

Computers and cameras took two decades to slow phase over, it gave film cutters time to learn digital editing software. What we're seeing is happening much faster and its going to displace entire industries.

More and more creative jobs are getting reduced to code which means that the only people creating 2D and 3D are seniors/art directors typing prompts, the gap between Junior and Senior is growing wider by the week and the juniors are going to find it harder to break in, if they can at all.

Within 10 years time, this technology will come to 3D, Programmers and Creative Writers and more; forcing us out of work to do what? What do we transition too if all things creative are due to be taken by AI? Its a profound question to ask but its becoming more of a reality every day.

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Nuehm

My main issue as an aspiring artist is that I don’t think people will ask for my permission to train their image generating AI with my work. I don‘t want that. It is my work. They shouldn‘t be allowed to just take it. And the only way i could prevent it is by not posting and sharing at all. That is not an option.

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Hannah FBR

one of my friends is at uni to become a concept artist for games. I'm currently at college to become a music producer and composer. Both of us are very worried about our future careers being snapped out of existence.

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Soro

I think as an artist, with could be used as a good personal tool. Example your writing a graphic novel, train your ai on main characters, and only on your own art, as you write more and train it more. The outputs could become useful for either placeholders, storyboarding, or near finalized images. Improving the speed of your work.

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Stefan Andersson

I think you covered the topic pretty well, but you missed maybe the most important part - most artists enjoy making art, not just the idea-part of it but the actual craft of it.

Historically, we've been automating away jobs that are dangerous and/or tedious and the promise was always that in the future, all of the boring jobs will be gone and we'll be left with the stuff that enriches our lives. This ain't it. I think it's super cool and using AI as a tool, for example, to brainstorm ideas is great.

But we are rapidly making human art obsolete, and you can't really handwave that away with "artist will just become art directors" because many - if not most - artists don't want to just sit and write prompts. And by introducing this option that is a million times cheaper and faster, they won't have a say in the matter.

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English

Meanwhile, after the explosion of all the AI-based image generators, many artists and professional graphic designers have spoken out.

In principle, there are two groups. The first group sees AI more as a new, useful tool to do their work even more efficiently, to increase their creativity and possibilities, while the other is rather skeptical about the development.

Some even hate AI, presumably out of fear that one's own work will be valued less if AIs can generate better images than oneself at the push of a button. Therefore, they call for bans. Many websites now reject AI-generated content. They would also prefer to ban the AI from training with their own images.

Rise against the machine.

Who do you think will win this battle? Is it legitimate for AIs to be trained with images and texts that are copyrighted but publicly available on the Internet? Don't humans also learn from existing works of art and get inspired by them?

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