AI can make art now, but artists aren’t afraid

guest · Feb 1, 2019

AI can make art now, but artists aren’t afraid
February 1, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/1...tudio-colorize-ai-artificial-intelligence-art

Artists are supposed to be among the least likely to lose their jobs to automation, but what happens when AI-enabled features start painting, editing, and doing other parts of their jobs for them?

The best AI features can assist artists and cut out repetitive tasks, says Tatiana Mejia, who manages Adobe’s AI platform, Sensei. Her assessment comes from a Pfeiffer Consulting study commissioned by Adobe, in which most creatives said they weren’t worried about being replaced by AI, and that they could see the most potential for AI and machine learning applied to tedious, uncreative tasks.

And while AI features might remove some work, Mejia at Adobe thinks it’ll just leave room for more and better work. “There may be something that used to be manually done that will be automated,” she says, “but it’ll be more than offset by the increased demand in terms of quantity and quality of work that’s expected.”
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ronjor · Feb 21, 2019

Long read.

A philosopher argues that an AI can’t be an artist

by Sean Dorrance Kelly February 21, 2019
Creativity is, and always will be, a human endeavor.
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bellgamin · Feb 23, 2019

Maybe computer AI cannot be an artist, but I think a computer might do so in a different (non-creative) way. The earliest computers that played chess (e.g. IBM's Big Blue) defeated human chess grand masters primarily by brute force. (See HERE.)

One example: a computer can "look" at any given position of its chess pieces versus an opponent's chess pieces & then literally *play out in memory* the millions of possible ensuing moves from that position, & choose the one move that most economically leads to victory.

Home computer chess games were not as powerful as Big Blue but also operated on brute force that some programmers referred to as "layers" -- how many feasible moves ahead the computer could play out in memory.

I had an Apple // chess game that only went to 7 layers, so I could beat it maybe once in 4 games. A chess master did eventually defeat Big Blue, so they reworked the program & put in some additional specialized chips & beat the guy. He wanted a rematch but that computer was dismantled, as I recall.

So I think a computer *could* eventually produce a beautiful piece of piano music, for example, by brute force plus some stored *good patterns* to mess with. Of course there would be uncountable instances of crap-music, but a masterpiece could eventually be produced ............ I think. (whimper)

JRViejo · Feb 23, 2019

bellgamin said: ↑

but a masterpiece could eventually be produced
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At least finished... Schubert's 'Unfinished' Symphony completed by artificial intelligence

guest · Nov 13, 2022

DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp
Confused artists discover their work will be used for AI training by default.
By Benj Edwards @benjedwards - November 11, 2022

On Friday, the online art community DeviantArt announced DreamUp, an AI-powered text-to-image generator service powered by Stable Diffusion. Simultaneously, DeviantArt launched an initiative that ostensibly lets artists opt out of AI image training but also made everyone's art opt in by default, which angered many members.
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DreamUp creates novel AI-generated art based on text prompts. Due to its Stable Diffusion roots, DreamUp learned how to generate images by analyzing hundreds of millions of images scraped off sites like DeviantArt and collected into LAION datasets without artists' permission, a potential irony that some DeviantArt members find problematic.

As we've reported frequently on Ars in the past, Stable Diffusion's web-scraping nature ignited a huge debate earlier this year among artists that challenge the ethics of AI-generated artwork. Some art communities have taken hard stances against any AI-generated images, banning them completely.
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As for DreamUp itself? We experimented with the service, which feels like a vanilla Stable Diffusion model. DeviantArt members get five free prompts to try it out, and members can acquire more prompt credits by subscribing to various CORE plans that range from US $3.95 to $14.95 a month.

Alternatively, you can also use Stable Diffusion locally for free if you're handy enough to install a package from GitHub or if you download the Draw Things app on your iPhone.
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Update: A few hours after press time, DeviantArt announced an update to their AI dataset policy stating that in response to community feedback, all DeviantArt-hosted images will be "automatically labeled as NOT authorized for use in AI datasets."
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guest · Nov 15, 2022

How DeviantArt is navigating the AI art minefield
By Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy - November 15, 2022

Artificial intelligence is learning to make art, and nobody has quite figured out how to handle it — including DeviantArt, one of the best-known homes for artists on the internet. Last week, DeviantArt decided to step into the minefield of AI image generation, launching a tool called DreamUp that lets anyone make pictures from text prompts. It’s part of a larger DeviantArt attempt to give more control to human artists, but it’s also created confusion — and, among some users, anger.

DreamUp is based on Stable Diffusion, the open-source image-spawning program created by Stability AI.
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“AI is not something that can be avoided. The technology is only going to get stronger from day to day,” says Liat Karpel Gurwicz, CMO of DeviantArt. “But all of that being said, we do think that we need to make sure that people are transparent in what they’re doing, that they’re respectful of creators, that they’re respectful of creators’ work and their wishes around their work.”

Contrary to some reporting, Gurwicz and DeviantArt CEO Moti Levy tell The Verge that DeviantArt isn’t doing (or planning) DeviantArt-specific training for DreamUp. The tool is vanilla Stable Diffusion, trained on whatever data Stability AI had scraped at the point DeviantArt adopted it.
Artists can fill out a form to request this opt-out, and they’ll be approved manually.
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Controversially, Stable Diffusion was trained on a huge collection of web images, and the vast majority of the creators didn’t agree to inclusion.

These problems crop up across other AI art platforms, too. Among other factors, questions about consent have led web platforms, including ArtStation and Fur Affinity, to ban AI-generated work entirely. (The stock images platform Getty also banned AI art, but it’s simultaneously partnered with Israeli firm Bria on AI-powered editing tools, marking a kind of compromise on the issue.)
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guest · Jan 26, 2023

Shutterstock now offers AI image creation using DALL-E technology
"Responsible" AI-based image generation is live for registered users
By Alfonso Maruccia @AlfonsoMaruccia - January 26, 2023

A hot potato: Shutterstock has opened the floodgates for selling and licensing artworks created with machine learning algorithms. The company says the new service follows an "ethical approach" to AI-based content, paying creators, while offering instantaneous gratification to its users.
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While the debate about AI-assisted content is still raging on the internet and in courthouses, Shutterstock is pushing its plans forward: the stock photography giant has just opened its AI image generation platform for paying customers, promising a novel way to create artworks that can be used in professional projects but are also responsible towards original creators.

Now available in beta as a part of the Creative Flow platform, Shutterstock AI is the result of a strategic partnership with OpenAI, which is providing the actual generative algorithms previously trained on Shutterstock's own stock material.
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According to early testing, Shutterstock AI provides four AI-generated images for every textual prompt. Quality of the results is a mixed bag, while the legal status of the overall generative technology is still up in the air.
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