Comment on Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Lol, after both steal every image on the internet.
No wonder the images look similar.
Comment on Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Lol, after both steal every image on the internet.
No wonder the images look similar.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 3 months ago
Have you seen those images of a bunch of people overlaid on each other so that shared features become clear and outliers become fuzzy. The result is an average human but it doesn’t actually look like anyone in particular because it’s a human with no striving feature or bold choice. Thats why AI look the same, they all have the same dull parts of real art but none of the interesting bits.
hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Thats such a good point i hadnt thought about before. Training data helps the ai know what is most common, so its products tend to be tropy, predictable and a bit bland (which is great for some things). They are often lacking that ooomph that makes great works truely unique and fascinating.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Only if your prompts are boring and dull. The more details I add to my prompts, the more unique of a look I can achieve.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 3 months ago
Yes, some people don’t notice the creative void in AI because they are themselves hollow humunculuses. The crawl at the edge of the human fire of creation and gather stray embers that hit the dead sands they occupy. Once in a while they find an ember with some faded glow left and they hold it up and se “The more details I add to my prompts, the more unique of a look I can achieve.”
I pity them because they will never understand true warmth.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Agree and disagree. You actually can get proper art out of those systems, also novelty, but it usually involves leading the AI onto a gradient you can’t reach with mere text prompts. It’s kinda like with riding horses: As a beginner, the horse will judge you an idiot and follow the horse in front of it and not your commands. You have to have both the intention and the skill to lead the horse onto an untrodden path.
Or, differently put: If a sketch can be art then so can a piece that the AI generated from such a sketch, that was declared adequate by the sketch maker. “Here, machine”, said the human, “I have done my part, I have infused these bits with life, now you do the boring stuff and polish it”.