ai discourse
@Paradox you make a good point, at the end of the day, it is a tool... one i don't think should be used for serious things... bit like a leatherman or swiss army knifei think for a lot of folks (myself included) however, it's how the tool was made... the creators of these models, unfortunately, took massive amounts of art, text, and so much else without permission..
and like, some will say that the individual works got compressed away, but, really, they didn't... there was a video i watched some time ago where they got the model to pop out the butterfly meme for example, it was mangled, yes, but still very recognizable
that, i suppose is my biggest sticking point with it at least, just the sheer disrespect for artists, then the folks that continue that cycle of disrespect, selling aigen works on patreon and the like
and like, i, as an artist, am actually perfectly fine with my works going into those models (barring those being used commercially), i'd like to be told if they did, but can understand if they don't...
there are, of course, plenty of other ethical and economic considerations...
i just wish that the research was more focused towards making models that don't rely on stolen works to function and could be more easily run on local hardware instead of gigantic server farms...
there is a better way to make these things.. and the ones perpetuating them, they just aren't, instead looking for the easy short term gains...
i would love a stablediffusion-esque model that was built from works sourced with permission... image generation is a heckuva lot of fun, but... i also don't want to disrespect my fellow artists.