> Lack of IP protection in our culture has made it impossible for 99.9% of artists to thrive economically.
You think we should have 1000x more artists than we do? I think there's another economic problem with that idea...
> The US has chosen relative cultural poverty compared to other cultures that find non-market mechanisms to support artists.
The USA has the largest market in the world for creative products and the most rich artists.
> My work is no AI’s whetstone.
Are you the same way with juniors? "I paid dearly to learn this technique - you should too!"
Aside from overtraining issues, the AI can't store your work anymore than you can store representations of everything you've trained on, it's vastly smaller than the sum of its training data. It distills out features and their combinations.
Some bigname artist is upset because he thinks he's the first one to put certain bat and lizard features on a dragon and that he now owns that entire sort of creature. Turns out though, that given an old picture of a dragon and that single sentence of mine that he could be copied by almost anyone. The only way to keep the AI from "copying" his work is to make sure that, even if not trained on his work, nobody asks it for those features. To satisfy these people it'll have to have a big red sign that says "Dragons are off limits, Bob owns them because you might put claws on the wings!".
You think we should have 1000x more artists than we do? I think there's another economic problem with that idea...
> The US has chosen relative cultural poverty compared to other cultures that find non-market mechanisms to support artists.
The USA has the largest market in the world for creative products and the most rich artists.
> My work is no AI’s whetstone.
Are you the same way with juniors? "I paid dearly to learn this technique - you should too!"
Aside from overtraining issues, the AI can't store your work anymore than you can store representations of everything you've trained on, it's vastly smaller than the sum of its training data. It distills out features and their combinations.
Some bigname artist is upset because he thinks he's the first one to put certain bat and lizard features on a dragon and that he now owns that entire sort of creature. Turns out though, that given an old picture of a dragon and that single sentence of mine that he could be copied by almost anyone. The only way to keep the AI from "copying" his work is to make sure that, even if not trained on his work, nobody asks it for those features. To satisfy these people it'll have to have a big red sign that says "Dragons are off limits, Bob owns them because you might put claws on the wings!".