cyberdad wrote:
People will not pay millions to Kilroy the autobot to paint a composite measured artwork drawing randomly from his database or internet
...What worries me is that people may instead pay Jeff, the IT guy who knows what keywords to use for the result which corporate desires. They'll dub him an AI artist or a SEO expert.
People are already using these tools to try to replicate certain digital artist's work for whatever design they're trying to achieve. However, it's not quite working out. Trying to make a very specific original work isn't easy. I remember a post that was being shared around where someone who asked the bot to copy a specific artist's work was asking for advice on how to alter their search, so the character would sit down and there would be no cats (the AI bot kept picking up on cats because the artist often used them in their work). This was shared to the artist, who was understandably upset.
Art forgery is nothing new, but it used to at least require some skill. Direct tracing often leads to losing detail. It also limits how the art can be replicated. To be talented at forgery meant dedicating the time to learn art as a craft. Now it means knowing how to use search.
However, some digital artists are fighting back by embedding designs into their art which are invisible to the human eye, but machine learning bots will see this information and get confused. A common one is embedding information which will tell the bot that it is a Picasso piece. So when someone comes along and asks for the bot to copy their work, it'll produce a work which is a messy combination of the artist's style and a random Picasso piece thrown in. Rude imagery is also quite common.
For now, this is a temporary solution, but it's only a matter of time until they figure out how to remove the junk information and how to make their search even more precise.
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