Brent Pruitt :: Artist

42 Million Key Frames of Anime Art Scraped to ‘Help Animators’

After scraping the artwork, MidJourney Founder & CEO David Holz admits, “There’s not a registry. We’re looking at that. The challenge now is finding out what the rules are, and how to figure out if a person is really the artist of a particular work or just putting their name on it.”

just putting their name on it

just…

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtTheft #Midjourney #DavidHolz #Anime #Art #MastoArt #Artist #ArtistsOnMastodon

May 23, 2024 at 4:53amWeb
Show threadBrent Pruitt :: ArtistMay 23, 2024

sincerely, the pro #AI #GenerativeAI crowd disgust me

from the ethics of theft and profit from others’ work without any form of credit or compensation, to the absolute destruction of the earth's ecosystem — they do not care

‘we’re helping animators/artists by taking away the tedium of creation’

the after-the-fact ‘opt-out’

the ‘but it’s on the internet‘

they do not care or comprehend

they only “help” themselves

https://arxiv.org/html/2405.07425v1

#Anime #Animation #Art #MastoArt #ArtTheft #Artist

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