The Verge: OpenAI is making its image generation software DALL-E much more widely available to businesses with the launch of an API in public beta. The API will make it easier for companies to add DALL-E’s text-to-image functionality to their products, giving developers simplified tools to integrate and customize the software to their liking.
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This seems cool and all, but I just wrote a comment on the article about Hollie Mengert and how her art style was taken by an AI like this. It's hard not to ignore the huge amount of ethical questions that come with AI image generation. Miller says to The Verge that he's still not sure about a solution for artist compensation but he's looking into it. If he really cared about this problem and the artists it affects, he would put the API on hold, take it out of the public's hands, and work out all the problems it has. At the same time, I think that the government ought to step in and MAKE AI companies stop until problems are worked out. Artist compensation, nudity and pornography, legal issues like copyrights - I mean, there are just a ton of questions about AI art. I think that this will eventually need its own section in DMCA laws, or maybe its own law itself.
I know that I am always rambling about AI. Mostly because I read way too much Science Fiction for my own good. But also because the way this tech can be used is genuinely terrifying to me. I mean, just look at that outpainting of girl with the pearl earring. It looks believable. If you had no idea what Girl with the Pearl Earring was supposed to look like you might be fooled. You would probably be fooled.
The monetization of this tech isn't what scares me, rather it is the weaponization of this tech that scares me. I think this technology will be used to falsely implicate people of crimes that they did not commit someday. It really unsettles me. And the more I consider the implications and possible uses of something like this the more I think we have are going to abuse the hell out of it down the line.
Similar to the article about Hollie Mengert, this one also talks about using artists’ work to train AI tech. It sounds like different companies are doing different things, but I’m glad Shutterstock is actually compensating artists if they use their work to train an AI system. Alex talked about this as well, but this seems like an area that might need some legal restraints sooner rather than later. I’m sure there will be some legal precedent that comes from lawsuits that will be rather inevitable at some point (goodness knows there's always a ton of lawsuits- I hope the artists are protected and compensated). I think that there should be more thought put into this before AI becomes open-source for anyone to use because that seems to be where a lot of problems are stemming from in this case (people are using it for whatever they want, costing them less than $1).
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