The ethics of AI art discussion.

[FAST6191]

In case you missed it then AI generated art has started to produce some phenomenal results

and also pretty good on more text based pursuits


Some artists are rather unhappy with these developments and unlike previous AI worries wherein some were rather concerned that a prompt for CEO did not return females as much as they wanted then here the big concern seems to be the samples used being copyrighted data (though I have questions there as to what counts and there is precious little case law for this one). One term that did come up was "overfitting" which is a term within AI/neural network problem solving wherein the data presented as a test becomes that which the AI produces rather than more novel solutions, a crude analogy might be blurring a picture eventually ends up with one colour but a more game related one can be seen in



When he tries it on alternative tracks you see how the training track's lack of certain features (though arguably that is a human selection problem as humans are famously awful at being random).

If you are not so familiar with the base of machine learning then


If you want to go a bit further into AI ponderings then


Videos I watched leading up to this

 

[Latiodile]

in my experience with experimenting with ai art, artists are being petty and panicking over nothing, i haven't managed to get anything i've actually been looking for when it comes to using prompts in an algorithm compared to actually just paying an artist to get what i want

 

[HellaJvke]

Ai tools are great for a variety of reasons, hopefully the haters wont disrupt the progress

 

[FAST6191]

Interesting counter take and some practical examples of its use


Bit of silliness from said same

 

[Marc_LFD]

The more people get used to AI technology doing everything, the less privacy we'll have and more automation there'll be. Plus, lower standards and lower quality.

For what it's worth some AI art does look good, much better than the piece of shit so-called modern art, but it still wouldn't replace the genuine art that hard working artists make, imo.

And lastly, Tesla has developed the technology for people to rely on auto-pilot though if people can't or don't know how to drive why tf would they trust a robot to drive them. That's just really lazy, stupid, dangerous, and careless. I'll never support or want to be in a driverless vehicle. I took my driver's license (about a year because of delays and the Rona 2020) so that I'd know how to drive and do it legally.

 

[Latiodile]

For what it's worth some AI art does look good, much better than the piece of shit so-called modern art, but it still wouldn't replace the genuine art that hard working artists make, imo.

porn is a very good example, if you want something specific, ai art can't give that to you

 

[FAST6191]

And lastly, Tesla has developed the technology for people to rely on auto-pilot though if people can't or don't know how to drive why tf would they trust a robot to drive them. That's just really lazy, stupid, dangerous, and careless. I'll never support or want to be in a driverless vehicle. I took my driver's license (about a year because of delays and the Rona 2020) so that I'd know how to drive and do it legally.

That is already happening by degrees. Chat around the mechanics lunch table at a car dealership I was at the other day was of a customer that lost the plot over being given a courtesy car that was dangerous because it did not feature object detection and she almost pulled out on someone. Lane keep assist where it would keep you in lane unless you indicated or turned harder on the wheel when I was there some years earlier was the hot discussion. I saw the other day new US cars are required to come with a reversing camera as well. Speed matching cruise control is a thing, as is auto braking/collision detection.
Few more years of this kind of nonsense and full AI is going to be rather less of a leap than it might be today.

As far as AI replacing human art... I am sure people will still do it as a vanity piece like they do for all manner of other things. The situation like it is today where you pay some internet random to do something for your book, business, website, and stock photography sites as well. That is a different matter entirely.