[2022] Tweets by Orteil42 on 08 Oct

i doubt a shady company replicating an artist's style would publicly disclose the prompt they used and whether it explicitly mentions said artist but i doubt this matters. if they're outputting your work's look and feel without paying you, get their asses

due to the way they function i do not believe art AIs commit copyright infringement when generating images HOWEVER it is absolutely possible to ask an AI to emulate another artist's style without consent or compensation which i think is legally actionable

i think neural nets are an incredible development and i do not agree with people trying to reduce them to something they're not; i also don't think every fear about them is warranted. but i'm still squarely siding with workers whose livelihood may be at risk

AI tech being misconstrued is grating but it's understandable coming from artists feeling threatened by it. content protection needs to be backed by actual legislation; maybe "in the style of" prompts should be filtered out unless an author opts in or is in the public domain

in any case things are almost certainly about to get extremely stupid until regulations and public awareness catch up and i am so so sorry

@Rexicutor i've been trying to parse this reply for some time and i do not think you actually read what i wrote