The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Okay, so I haven't typically seen reason to ever be a presence in these forums... or be much of a presence here, outside of consuming these images. However, I am beside myself when I see the hypocrisy of images made with the help of Kisekae being banned on the grounds of its content being "samey", while AI-generated images run rampant. Are those somehow not "samey" enough because the AI can mimic dynamic angles with its regurgitations?
I don't expect anything to be done by my pointing this out; however, if any moderators or administrators are reading this... ideally, I'd prefer the situation being completely reversed; however, I would be fine with Kisekae remaining banned, if AI art was similarly banned. This is because even if you agree with the rhetorical question I posed about AI art only not looking "samey" because it can render more than "straight-on", and even if you disregard the argument that Kisekae at least takes more effort to get the doll looking like the character --especially if the character has a complex design or a non-standard face! -- at least that effort to make the doll look accurate is entirely HUMAN.
With AI, all the HUMAN does is type a premise into a website and wait as an algorithm churns out something serviceable from remixing its "training data" to fit the prompt; and the kicker about that "training data"? IT IS STOLEN ART. Not only do these coders very likely use imageboards full of artists' leaked premium content to train their programs, but even if they didn't: it is a violation of artist consent that could lead to artists losing the commissions that they need to survive, because the potential commissioner is satisfied with what the algorithm spat out; and as we can clearly see from scrolling through the pages of the "AI_art" tag, what the algorithm spits out is getting imperceptibly better -- and less distinguishable from human attempts -- by the DAY.
Thanks for reading, and I hope this community starts agreeing with me; otherwise, you might just end up needing to update your artist blacklist.
I don't expect anything to be done by my pointing this out; however, if any moderators or administrators are reading this... ideally, I'd prefer the situation being completely reversed; however, I would be fine with Kisekae remaining banned, if AI art was similarly banned. This is because even if you agree with the rhetorical question I posed about AI art only not looking "samey" because it can render more than "straight-on", and even if you disregard the argument that Kisekae at least takes more effort to get the doll looking like the character --especially if the character has a complex design or a non-standard face! -- at least that effort to make the doll look accurate is entirely HUMAN.
With AI, all the HUMAN does is type a premise into a website and wait as an algorithm churns out something serviceable from remixing its "training data" to fit the prompt; and the kicker about that "training data"? IT IS STOLEN ART. Not only do these coders very likely use imageboards full of artists' leaked premium content to train their programs, but even if they didn't: it is a violation of artist consent that could lead to artists losing the commissions that they need to survive, because the potential commissioner is satisfied with what the algorithm spat out; and as we can clearly see from scrolling through the pages of the "AI_art" tag, what the algorithm spits out is getting imperceptibly better -- and less distinguishable from human attempts -- by the DAY.
Thanks for reading, and I hope this community starts agreeing with me; otherwise, you might just end up needing to update your artist blacklist.
