His style has been requested over 400,000 times, even surpassing legends like Picasso and Da Vinci—all without his consent.

Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski’s style against his wishes using a LoRA model. While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski’s art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5. The debate highlights the blurry line between innovation and infringement in the emerging field of AI art.

  • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    That’s not the aspect you were arguing about in the comment I’m responding to. You said:

    You keep comparing what one person, given MONTHS or YEARS of their life could do with one artists work to a machine doing NOT THE SAME THING can do with thousands of artists work.

    And that’s what I’m talking about here. The speed with which the machine does its work is immaterial.

    Though frankly, if the machine stamping out parts had somehow “learned” how to do it by looking at thousands of existing parts, that would be fine too. So I don’t see any problem here.