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Sp00keh



Joined: Dec 06, 2011

Post   Posted: Feb 07, 2025 - 20:33 Reply with quote Back to top

Yea we understand that, and we know you're not doing it for $$$
I don't object at all to what you've done. And I've got several 3rd party teams myself, brutefun, ugni, etc

The negativity isn't directed at you the enduser. mostly it's at the AI industry's theft of copyright material to build these tools
There's also the aspect of how it will impact creative jobs in the future that many are wary of
Zelmor



Joined: Sep 29, 2022

Post   Posted: Feb 08, 2025 - 12:52 Reply with quote Back to top

Regardless of whether you think these AI images are theft or not, they look garbage and if you like them you have bad taste. Pick up a pen, learn to draw. Pick up Blender. Learn to sculpt. You will get more satisfaction out of life that way. This here thing that OP posted? This is just noise I wish he didn't share. Dime a dozen.
Kondor



Joined: Apr 04, 2008

Post   Posted: Feb 08, 2025 - 13:05 Reply with quote Back to top

Zelmor wrote:
Regardless of whether you think these AI images are theft or not, they look garbage and if you like them you have bad taste. Pick up a pen, learn to draw. Pick up Blender. Learn to sculpt. You will get more satisfaction out of life that way. This here thing that OP posted? This is just noise I wish he didn't share. Dime a dozen.


This is just the beginning. AI will continue to improve and the detail level will improve. I plan to run the same images through the program or a similar program every 6 months to see the progress.

No problem if you don't like them. Professional sculpts are clearly better. Sculpting is not what brings me satisfaction it is painting and playing the games.

Even though stuff like Hero Clicks look just as good or better than what I paint, I continue to find enjoyment in the painting. I am sure there are others that feel the same.

Oh, and I will post more as the mood strikes me.
Drrek



Joined: Jul 23, 2012

Post   Posted: Feb 08, 2025 - 16:52 Reply with quote Back to top

Kondor wrote:
Zelmor wrote:
Regardless of whether you think these AI images are theft or not, they look garbage and if you like them you have bad taste. Pick up a pen, learn to draw. Pick up Blender. Learn to sculpt. You will get more satisfaction out of life that way. This here thing that OP posted? This is just noise I wish he didn't share. Dime a dozen.


This is just the beginning. AI will continue to improve and the detail level will improve. I plan to run the same images through the program or a similar program every 6 months to see the progress.


This has been said a lot but its not necessarily true (though it could be).

First, this is not just the beginning. AI has been in development for a long time. Machine learning has been a thing for many years. There have been major breakthroughs recently, but it isn't like we just discovered a new field and are just getting our hands into it.

Second, technology just doesn't work like this. People see a technology explode out of seemingly nowhere and then assume it will continue at that same rate of development forever. It usually doesn't. Often it ends up slowing down quite a bit as the gains become more and more marginal until some new paradigm shifting breakthrough happens. But that breakthrough could be decades from now for all we know.

Or it could be tomorrow. Technology is not a linear process, it has great surges forward, and long plateaus of minimal gains. Currently we are in a surge, and when that happens, its easy to feel like it will continue at that pace forever. But there is a solid chance that it won't. We just don't know.
koadah



Joined: Mar 30, 2005

Post   Posted: Feb 08, 2025 - 17:14 Reply with quote Back to top

Garion wrote:

Anyway. I'm out... I despise AI stealing art. Nothing more to say.


Well, sure but a lot of writing is out of copyright. A lot of painters have been dead for hundreds of years.

Some people might offer "open source" work.
I guess the big companies might pay artists to create art especially for AI.

I don't know how it works though if someone later comes to you with a copyright claim from something that you created from AI.

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gumbi



Joined: Aug 02, 2003

Post   Posted: Feb 08, 2025 - 18:23 Reply with quote Back to top

Wow - can you please post an article how you do this? debates aside it is awesome work.
The_Murker



Joined: Jan 30, 2011

Post   Posted: Feb 09, 2025 - 05:10 Reply with quote Back to top

Zelmor wrote:
Regardless of whether you think these AI images are theft or not, they look garbage and if you like them you have bad taste. Pick up a pen, learn to draw. Pick up Blender. Learn to sculpt. You will get more satisfaction out of life that way. This here thing that OP posted? This is just noise I wish he didn't share. Dime a dozen.


Most obnoxious post of 2025 thus far, imo. The OP played around with something digital, and thought he might share it, in case others were interested. Some were. No need to let out someone's inner art-snob with a comment like that.

Anyone thinking people should be able to make a real living from creating 'art' is about as far along the 'naive and immature' scale as it gets. Those same people probably think we should all have a Universal Basic Income to take care of us and our cats while we do whatever we want in life.

No. You should have a job that adds value to your society. Anything creative you do on your own time should give you, and you alone, enjoyment. The moment you put it on the internet.. best case scenario is it's gives enjoyment to, or gains appreciation from someone else. Maybe lots of others.. but it should be posted to be 'given away' freely. And if it is any good at all it's 100% going to be 'copied' 'saved' 'reused' and 'incorporated into the AI matrix' by anyone and everyone that wants to. That's reality. Just like needing a job to eat should be reality.

FUMBBL is an amazing example of programming 'art' being given away freely. 1000's of hours have been invested by the creator and his volunteers, and it's being 'given away' for others to enjoy. Almost nothing is asked in return. Basically only that we be civil to each other as we enjoy their 'donated time.'

A professional artist should be 1 in a million. Truly. No one should pay you a dime for your crappy music, homemade bracelets, or digital comic book art. Not a dime.

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Drrek



Joined: Jul 23, 2012

Post   Posted: Feb 09, 2025 - 05:40 Reply with quote Back to top

The_Murker wrote:
Zelmor wrote:
Regardless of whether you think these AI images are theft or not, they look garbage and if you like them you have bad taste. Pick up a pen, learn to draw. Pick up Blender. Learn to sculpt. You will get more satisfaction out of life that way. This here thing that OP posted? This is just noise I wish he didn't share. Dime a dozen.


Most obnoxious post of 2025 thus far, imo. The OP played around with something digital, and thought he might share it, in case others were interested. Some were. No need to let out someone's inner art-snob with a comment like that.

Anyone thinking people should be able to make a real living from creating 'art' is about as far along the 'naive and immature' scale as it gets. Those same people probably think we should all have a Universal Basic Income to take care of us and our cats while we do whatever we want in life.

No. You should have a job that adds value to your society. Anything creative you do on your own time should give you, and you alone, enjoyment. The moment you put it on the internet.. best case scenario is it's gives enjoyment to, or gains appreciation from someone else. Maybe lots of others.. but it should be posted to be 'given away' freely. And if it is any good at all it's 100% going to be 'copied' 'saved' 'reused' and 'incorporated into the AI matrix' by anyone and everyone that wants to. That's reality. Just like needing a job to eat should be reality.

FUMBBL is an amazing example of programming 'art' being given away freely. 1000's of hours have been invested by the creator and his volunteers, and it's being 'given away' for others to enjoy. Almost nothing is asked in return. Basically only that we be civil to each other as we enjoy their 'donated time.'

A professional artist should be 1 in a million. Truly. No one should pay you a dime for your crappy music, homemade bracelets, or digital comic book art. Not a dime.


What a deeply unpleasant viewpoint you have. I am not an artist. I will never be an artist, I don't have the talent for it. I have a decently high paying job in the tech industry and benefit in no way personally from artists being fairly compensated for their work. So know that I am not speaking for myself when I say this: your viewpoint is incredibly bitter and only serves to make the world a worse place.
The_Murker



Joined: Jan 30, 2011

Post   Posted: Feb 09, 2025 - 06:26 Reply with quote Back to top

Can you explain what you mean? That just sounds like generic virtue-signalling.
"Artists good. Go art!"
What type of 'art' should a low or mid-level artist be compensated for? And how much? Do you have an idea on what someone should be compensated for? Or how? Someone makes a comic book and posts it online. Should OpenAI pay a random dude some money because he put his images on DiviantArt.com? How much? Can you flesh out your viewpoint a bit more?
What's 'bitter' about my comment? Makes the world worse how?

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Sp00keh



Joined: Dec 06, 2011

Post   Posted: Feb 09, 2025 - 10:25 Reply with quote Back to top

Same comment as Drrek. Wow.


"Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living."
- Stephen Fry



I also work in tech and have no expectations at all that I'll make any money off art
But I enjoy photography, I enjoy painting minis, I've posted some in blogs

If I publish images onto the web, it's for the limited purpose of sharing with you other nerds that share the same hobby
I automatically own the copyright
I don't consent to them being scraped and infringed
The AI companies view anything they can access on the internet as free for them to do whatever they want with, which is legally .. dubious
moph



Joined: Sep 16, 2020

Post   Posted: Feb 09, 2025 - 15:45 Reply with quote Back to top

The_Murker wrote:

What type of 'art' should a low or mid-level artist be compensated for? And how much? Do you have an idea on what someone should be compensated for? Or how? Someone makes a comic book and posts it online. Should OpenAI pay a random dude some money because he put his images on DiviantArt.com? How much?

The value of something is evaluated by supply and demand.
And for this it makes no difference whether it is a potato or a drawing.
And a free society has laws that protect people to do these trades/ business. And if the AI models need data to be build there seems to be a demand. Both parties can negotiate it's not like there is a fixed answer to your questions. But not even negotiating because you can get away with just taking things is wrong. And to be clear this does not only concern the work of low and mid level artists but also high and top tier.
Drrek



Joined: Jul 23, 2012

Post   Posted: Feb 10, 2025 - 06:54 Reply with quote Back to top

The_Murker wrote:
Can you explain what you mean? That just sounds like generic virtue-signalling.
"Artists good. Go art!"
What type of 'art' should a low or mid-level artist be compensated for? And how much? Do you have an idea on what someone should be compensated for? Or how? Someone makes a comic book and posts it online. Should OpenAI pay a random dude some money because he put his images on DiviantArt.com? How much? Can you flesh out your viewpoint a bit more?
What's 'bitter' about my comment? Makes the world worse how?


How much should OpenAI be forced to pay to use the artist's (notably copyrighted by merely having created it) material for commercial purposes (and yes, it is commercial purposes, because they are using it to develop a commercial product) you ask?

Very simply, whatever the artist demands they pay. If OpenAI does not want to pay those costs, they are free to not use the art, and are free to find other artists who will accept what they consider a more reasonable price. But that art is owned, legally and morally by that person who created it. It is their work. If you want to use it to make money, that means you have their permission first.

You say that artists shouldn't be paid for their work, work I may add clearly has commercial value because people are willing to steal it to make money, and you ask me why that opinion is bitter? If you can't see why, I suggest you do a little introspection.
Gridironman



Joined: Mar 18, 2022

Post   Posted: Feb 10, 2025 - 07:23 Reply with quote Back to top

AI disgusts me for the reasons that Sp00keh detailed, but I would be a fool not to use AI if I ran a business sadly. Which means I cannot legitimately fault a business for using AI because the excess funds could go to research and development, talent retention, and really whatever the owner or CEO/shareholders deem worthy. I do use AI to speed things up personally, but I do feel that it is a misanthropic technology ultimately.

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