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
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 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 and a group of other artists filed a class action lawsuit against stability ai and a group of other ai image generators. in the meantime, karla made the decision to take her work off the internet wherever she could. she figured it was the only way to avoid a computer scraping her work into an image data set without her consent. but what if she could still show her work online and keep it from being used to help generate new ai art? honestly, we just never had any idea it was such an impactful problem. this is professor ben chow,
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.
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. 0n midjourney, another popular generator, it s incredibly easy