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"I don’t think I’ve ever seen art theft quite like this before. Two days ago, a
Genshin Impact fanartist was painting a new creation on Twitch. Before they
could even finish the fanart and post it to Twitter, one of their viewers fed
the work-in-progress into an AI generator and “completed” it first. After the
artist posted their completed art, the art thief proceeded to demand credit
from the original artist. “You posted like 5-6 hours after me, and for that
kind of drawing, you can make it fast,” the swindler brazenly tweeted. “You
took [a] reference [from] an AI image but at least admit it.”
AT is a Korean-language anime artist who streams process videos on Twitch. On
October 11, they painted Raiden Shogun from
Genshin Impact in front of a live
audience. Then a Twitter user named Musaishh took the in-process image, created
a similar image of Raiden Shogun with
Novel AI, and then uploaded it six
hours before the artist’s stream ended. Maybe they would have gotten away with
it if they hadn’t tried to attack AT for posting their own art. Musaishh has
since deleted their account. Probably because a lot of fans and artists got
pissed off at their blatant art theft. When you fuck around, you should expect
to find out.
Since the software behind AI-generated art became mainstream, flesh-and-blood
artists have struggled to maintain control over their works. Now they have to
concern themselves with proving that they’re the creators at all. In response
to the incident, one artist reminded their audience to keep backup streams of
their process. Several artists tweeted that they didn’t want to stream their
work-in-progress again. “Now any of us can be accused by art thieves of
‘stealing’ because their AI art ‘finished’ the piece first,” wrote one artist."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
