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.

  • @raccoona_nongrata

    A machine will not unilaterally develop an art form, and develop it for 100,000 years.

    Yes I agree with this.

    However, they are not developing an art form now.

    Nor did Monet, Shakespeare, or Beethoven develop an art form. Or develop it for 100,000 years.

    So machines cannot emulate that.

    But they can create the end product based on past creations, much as Monet, Shakespeare, and Beethoven did.

    • No, humans create and develope styles in art from “mistakes” that AI would not continue pursuing. Because they personally like it or have a strange addiction to their own creative process. The current hand mistakes for example were perhaps one of the few interesting things AI has done…

      Current AI models recreate what is most liked by the majority of people.

        • But that’s still not how it works for an artist. I don’t mean stumbling upon an accident and using it in your work but deliberately creating something that’s not liked and perfect the way you do it. For someone who just instructs a tool and generates images in rapid speed they go a very different path.