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I don't think it's as simple as all that. Artists look at other artists' work when they're learning, for ideas, for methods of doing stuff, etc. Good artists probably have looked at a ton of other artwork, they don't just form their skills in a vacuum. Do they need to credit all the artists they "stole from"?
In the article, the company made a point about not using AI models specifically trained on a smaller set of works (or some artist's individual works). Doing something like that would be a lot easier to argue that it's stealing: but the same would be true if a human artist carefully studied another person's work and tried to emulate their style/ideas. I think there's a difference between that an "learning" (or learning) for a large body of work and not emulating any specific artist, company, individual works, etc.
Obviously it's something that needs to be handled fairly carefully, but that can be true with human artists too.
Artists who look at art are processing it in a relatable, human way. An AI doesnt look at art. A human tells the AI to find art and plug it in, knowing that work is copyrighted and not available for someone else's commercial project to develop an AI.
That's not how AI art works. You can't tell it to find art and plug it in. It doesn't have the capability to store or copy existing artworks. It only contains the matrix of vectors which contain concepts. Concepts cannot be copyrighted.
Kind of. The AI doesn't go out and find/do anything, people include images in its training data though. So it's the human that's finding the art and plugging it in — most likely through automated processes that just scrape massive amounts of images and add them to the corpus used for training.
Sorry, this is wrong. You definitely can train AI to produce works that are very nearly a direct copy. How "original" works created by the AI are is going to depend on the size of the corpus it got trained on. If you train the AI (or put a lot of weight on) training for just a couple works from one specific artist or something like that it's going to output stuff that's very similar. If you train the AI on 1,000,000 images from all different artists, the output isn't really going to resemble any specific artist's style or work.
That's why the company emphasized they weren't training the AI to replicate a specific artist's (or design company, etc) works.
As a general statement: No, I am not. You're making an over specific scenario to make it true. Sure, if I take 1 image and train a model just on that one image, it'll make that exact same image. But that's no different than me just pressing copy and paste on a single image file. The latter does the job whole lot better too. This entire counter argument is nothing more than being pedantic.
Furthermore, if I'm making such specific instructions to the AI, then I am the one who's replicating the art. It doesn't matter if I use a pencil to trace out the existing art, using photoshop, or creating a specific AI model. I am the one who's doing that.
You didn't qualify what you said originally. It either has the capability or not: you said it didn't, it actually does.
Not really. It isn't that far-fetched that a company would see an artist they'd like to use but also not want to pay that artist's fees so they train an AI on the artist's portfolio and can churn out very similar artwork. Training it on one or two images is obviously contrived, but a situation like what I just mentioned is very plausible.
So this isn't true. What you said isn't accurate with the literal interpretation and it doesn't work with the more general interpretation either. The person higher in the thread called it stealing: in that case it wasn't, but AI models do have the capability to do what most people would probably call "stealing" or infringing on the artist's rights. I think recognizing that distinction is important.
Yes, that's kind of the point. A lot of people (me included) would be comfortable calling doing that sort of thing stealing or plagiarism. That's why the company in OP took pains to say they weren't doing that.