AI vs Artists - The Biggest Art Heist in History

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Cross-post from General Discussion: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218746833

From the description on YouTube:

Generative AI can be called many things depending on your point of view: machine, thief, tool, medium, collaborator, muse and even artist. In this video I will try to find answers for a lot of complex things and I will attempt to judge this technology with an open mind. In the last couple of weeks I spoke to many amazing artists and scientists about my mixed feelings of generative AI. Join me to hear their thoughts, my advice to creators and predictions on what’s to come.

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00:00 Introduction
00:59 AI Potential
01:40 Data Set / Image Generation
03:44 Text to Image Models
08:29 AI Style Mimicry
13:07 Intellectual Property
16:16 Nightshade
17:27 Commercial use of AI
22:48 Industrialized Art
26:44 Artists vs AI artists
32:06 AI Copyright
33:44 Ethical AI
37:24 Future in Art

[brush]

1. If it's not a hand-wrought one-off originals, it's bullshit and worth about the same as NFTs.