the images, they now have a data set that lets them create almost any type of image from a simple text prompt. it produces some interesting stuff, but the problem is many artists never gave their consent for their art to be used in an image generator like this. so what should artists do? so we have seen art theft before. but we have never seen it at this level. this is karla 0rtiz, she s a concept artist in san francisco. a concept artist is a person who provides the first initial visuals to what something could be in a movie. she has designed art for magic: the gathering, and even in marvel s doctor strange movies. last year, she discovered that her art had been scraped into an ai image data set. especially my fine art work, and that to me felt really invasive, because i had never given anyone my permission to do that. 0n midjourney, another popular generator, it s incredibly easy
it produces some interesting stuff, but the problem is many artists never gave their consent for their art to be used in an image generator like this. so what should artists do? so we have seen art theft before. we have never seen it at this level. this is karla 0rtiz, she s a concept artist in san francisco. a concept artist is a person who provides the first initial visuals to what something could be in a movie. she has designed art for magic: the gathering, and even in marvel s doctor strange movies. last year, she discovered last year that her art had been scraped into an ai image data set. especially my fine artwork, and that to me felt really invasive, because i had never given anyone my permission to do that. 0n midjourney, another popular generator, it s incredibly easy to find posts using karla s name to generate work that looks incredibly similar to hers, and the same is true for dozens of other artists online. so earlier this year karla
with image generators like dall e and stable diffusion, almost anyone can create a new art in a matter of seconds. but the models that makes this art don tjust do it out of thin air. they have learnt to mimic styles, even specific artists, through a process called training where the models injest millions, sometimes billions of images, scraped from websites all around the web. combined with text describing the images, they now have a data set that lets them create almost any type of image from a simple text prompt. it produces some interesting stuff, but the problem is many artists never gave their consent for their art to be used in an image generator like this. so what should artists do? so we have seen art theft before. but we have never seen it at this level. this is karla 0rtiz, she s a concept artist in san francisco. a concept artist is a person who provides the first initial visuals to what something could be in something in a movie. she has designed art for magic: the gather
sometimes billions of images, scraped from websites all around the web. combined with text describing the images, they now have a data set that lets them create almost any type of image from a simple text prompt. it produces some interesting stuff, but the problem is many artists never gave their consent for their art to be used in an image generator like this. so what should artists do? so we have seen art theft before. but we have never seen it at this level. this is karla 0rtiz, she s a concept artist in san francisco. a concept artist is a person who provides the first initial visuals to what something could be in a movie. she has designed art for magic: the gathering, and even in marvel s doctor strange movies. last year, she discovered that her art had been scraped into an ai image data set. especially my fine art work, and that to me felt really invasive, because i had never given anyone my permission to do that.