www.fastcompany.com: Dall-E 2. Stable Diffusion. Midjourney. These tools all use generative AI to create images based on any text description you can dream up. They’re astounding. But the stuff they churn out can be more fascinatingly weird than wonderful. They’re also provoking ire (and, in the case of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, legal pushback) from artists who don’t like the idea of AI taking their jobs, being trained on their work, and even mimicking their style.
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With the big names of AI image generation starting to establish themselves, it’s interesting to see a big name of another industry introduce their own generative image AI into the crowd - especially one that owns some of the biggest photo editing and video editing softwares that exist. The idea of a Do Not Train tag is a good one and a first step in helping protect original work from creators from being reproduced - and while I’m hoping for a number of other safeguards on AI, I understand that this specific AI tool is in the beginning stages of its development. Adobe (at least from this article) seems like they are most focused on taking careful steps into the field, especially with all the dialogue around AI tools, even more so with AI content generation - it’ll be interesting to see how this tool develops in the future, in tandem with other Adobe products.
After reading about so many other programs where the AI software has learned from unknowing artists, I am pleasantly surprised that Adobe has worked hard to ensure Firefly is solely using images from the public domain.
With capitalism’s emphasis on decreasing costs in order to increase profits, the use of synthetic voices seems inevitable, just as EZ-Pass has replaced human staff at highway tolls. As these programs become more sophisticated, it will be difficult to independently identify what art, photographs and music that is generated by AI. Since it is apparent that AI generated work will be a part of the future, clear indication that the work is AI generated must be included. This is not okay. Authorization needs to be upfront and in fact, I believe consumers should be informed when viewing art generated by synthetic artists. Companies should not be able to exploit artists’ work without compensation.
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