I am genuinely trying to get better at art. I’m not there yet (likely never will be), the lying machine is still better than me.
The context:
This is my sketch.
And this is what the ai output.
I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it. I know there are people who will tell me that I’m terrible for using ai at all. I’m also sorry if this is the wrong community to ask this question (ask reddit would delete my post instantly if I tried to post there).
Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that’s my skillset. So if I were to use the ai upscaled version for my book, well, I’m asking for opinions.
It’s stealing
Unless you think people painting replicas to pass off as their own aren’t stealing.
You bring up a great point! When someone does that: Painting a replica and passing it off as their own, what law have they violated? They have committed fraud. That’s a counterfeit.
Is making a counterfeit stealing? No! It’s counterfeitting. That is it’s own category of law.
It’s also a violation of the owner’s copyright but let’s talk about that too: If I pay an artist to copy someone’s work, who is the copyright violator? Me, or the artist that painted it? Neither! It’s a trick question, because copyright law only comes into force when something is distributed. As long as those works never get distributed/viewed to/by the public, it’s neither here nor there.
The way AI works is the same as if you took a book you purchased, threw it in a blender, then started pasting chunks of words out of it in a ransom note.