Lightning
Master Member
They do it by stealing everyone's work to feed into their AI's. So they get the labor of talented people and then not having to pay those people. All those creating these AI's should be in jail for theft.
We need to remember that AI is basically just an advanced copy machine. It's a learning computer fed with the efforts of real people, but it has nothing of its own. It's a blank slate. We should be careful not to anthropomorphize AI, as it is basically just faking it. Unlike animals that have a personality of their own... the AI doesn't. It can mix and throw things together, but it can never create something new.
I disagree with this. I just don't see a significant difference, from an IP perspective, to a real person learning to draw. Did you pay everyone whose work you looked at when you learned to draw? You are storing all those images in your brain, and using them when drawing a cat from memory.
AI doesn't copy an eye here and a nose there and a window from over there. It learns what stuff looks like. It starts with random generated noise and basically "squints" at it really hard to figure out what it looks like. That's why the same prompt with a different seed (the noise) comes up looking different. The text promt makes it decide to find a cow in the noise rather than a tree, for example.
The errors it makes help demonstate how it works. The other day I got one where it tried to draw crossed arms but ended up merging the forearms together and not drawing hands at all. It "knows" that forearms attach to elbows, it just did it at both ends rather than adding hands on the other side. It didn't get that from an existing artwork. Speaking of hands, the mistakes it makes are unlike anything a human would make, but humans have trouble drawing hands for the same reason, they are an insanely complicated shape, with a million possible positions.