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Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski's style against his wishes using a LoRA model. While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski's art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5. The debate highlights the blurry line between innovation and infringement in the emerging field of AI art.

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[–] doeknius_gloek@feddit.de 108 points 1 year ago (88 children)

While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski's art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5.

What kind of argument is that supposed to be? We've stolen his art before so it's fine? Dickheads. This whole AI thing is already sketchy enough, at least respect the artists that explicitly want their art to be excluded.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (60 children)

His art was not "stolen." That's not an accurate word to describe this process with.

It's not so much that "it was done before so it's fine now" as "it's a well-understood part of many peoples' workflows" that can be used to justify it. As well as the view that there was nothing wrong with doing it the first time, so what's wrong with doing it a second time?

[–] Kara@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I don't like when people say "AI just traces/photobashes art." Because that simply isn't what happens.

But I do very much wish there was some sort of opt-out process, but ultimately any attempt at that just wouldn't work

People that say that have never used AI art generation apps and are only regurgitating what they hear from other people who are doing the same. The amount of arm chair AI denialists is astronomical.

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