Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work

Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by spondylosaurus on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:50AM (#41721874)

This may not be the reason he's "losing" money here, but I was struck by how much less... impressive that piece is to me now compared to when I first saw it. (Visually impressive; I've always known it was from Midjourney.)

When the news first broke about it winning an award, I was like "well damn, I can see why—it's visually striking!" But the longer I look at it, and the more LLM-generated images I see in general, the less this one stands out to me. It's still pleasing, but seems less unique in both its strengths and flaws: the soft glowing lights, the tasteful muted palette, the random greebled details.

And it bothers me that the glowing orb/archway in the center has a distinct border around most of its circumference, but the part from 4 to 6 o'clock is fuzzier and blends into the nearby wall(?) :P

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by rsynnott on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:55PM (#41722647)

AI-generated images are interesting in that, in general, the more you look at them, and in particular the more you look at the detail, the worse they look. This is, arguably, one simple way to distinguish them from actual art.

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by fuzzfactor on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @01:39PM (#41723084)

>the part from 4 to 6 o'clock is fuzzier and blends into the nearby wall

Kind of like a Rembrandt or something.

I guess there's a reason it's always been said "there's no accounting for taste" :)

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by spondylosaurus on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @01:52PM (#41723258)

But only part of it blends! If the whole circumference was like that, it wouldn't bug me.

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by fuzzfactor on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:21PM (#41724644)

I know what you mean, there's something to bug everyone ;)

Maybe it's not going to be too easy to reach the level of a "masterpiece" with only a non-owner to bring it into the world?

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by ginvok on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @04:21PM (#41724640)

Pretty images are worthless, there's no point staring at images that have were made without intention or effort. Making a prompt is hardly any effort and more of a lucky hit.

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by ThrowawayTestr on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @06:20PM (#41725482)

Making a good generated image is way more than typing a prompt.

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by sundaeofshock on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @11:42PM (#41727178)

How? Seriously, beyond coming up with the prompt, how is synthetic content more then typing a prompt

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by dmarcos on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:27AM (#41727386)

Look for ComfyUI tutorials on YouTube. Creating something unique is elaborate and requires developing skills no different than Photoshop or any other digital art tool.

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by Ferret7446 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:52PM (#41732476)

There's equally no point staring at images that were made with intention or effort either.

It doesn't pass a blind scientific placebo test.

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Re:Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People St... by harisec on Thursday October 03, 2024 @12:47AM (#41727465)

There are no "LLM-generated images". These images are generated using diffusion models. LLMs are very different from diffusion models.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_model

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