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.

      • Deniz Opal@syzito.xyz
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        1 year ago

        @raccoona_nongrata

        Actually. It is necessary. The process of creativity is much much more a synergy of past consumption than we think.

        It took 100,000 years to get from cave drawings to Leonard Da Vinci.

        Yes we always find ways to draw, but the pinnacle of art comes from a shared culture of centuries.

    • Ben from CDS@dice.camp
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      1 year ago

      @selzero @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon But human creativity is not ONLY a combination of past creativity. It is filtered through a lifetime of subjective experience and combined knowledge. Two human artists schooled on the same art history can still produce radically different art. Humans are capable of going beyond has been done before.

      Before going too deep on AI creation spend some time learning about being human. After that, if you still find statistical averages interesting, go back to AI.

      • Deniz Opal@syzito.xyz
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        1 year ago

        @glenatron @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon

        I mean, yes, you are right, but essentially, it is all external factors. They can be lived through external factors, or data fed external factors.

        I don’t think there is a disagreement here other than you are placing a lot of value on “the human experience” being an in real life thing rather than a read thing. Which is not even fully true of the great masters. It’s a form of puritan fetishisation I guess.

        • Ben from CDS@dice.camp
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          1 year ago

          @selzero @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon I don’t think it’s even contraversial. Will sentient machines ever have an equivalent experience? Very probably. Will they be capable of creating art? Absolutely.

          Can our current statistical bulk reincorporation tools make any creative leap? Absolutely not. They are only capable of plagiarism. Will they become legitimate artistic tools? Perhaps, when the people around them start taking artists seriously instead of treating them with distain.

          • Deniz Opal@syzito.xyz
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            1 year ago

            @glenatron @raccoona_nongrata @fwygon

            This angle is very similar to a debate going on in the cinema world, with Scorsese famously ranting that Marvel movies are “not movies”

            The point being without a directors message being portrayed, these cookie cutter cinema experiences, with algorithmically developed story lines, should not be classified as proper movies.

            But the fact remains, we consume them as movies.

            We consume AI art as art.