Is it best to be able to draw with a pen or brush a picture that looks like a 3-year-old’s kindergarten homework?
Enter the era of text-to-image art generators. It’s just a keyword! An image generated by artificial intelligence (AI) is created.
2D designer Lily Liu dreads the ease of it all. She works at a game studio where her daily routine is designing user interfaces and creating artwork for games for her mobile devices. Recently, her boss instructed her to research artificial intelligence art generators.
A week later, she came to the dismal conclusion that her current job might one day become obsolete and largely absorbed by computer programs.
“I have to admit that AI art generators like this are very capable,” said Liu. “They make some of the drawing work so much easier that I don’t think any company can resist it.It saves time and manpower. It is possible to do four jobs.”
Liu has tried all the popular artificial intelligence art generators, including Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and Dall-E 2. She experimented with different styles of work, including impressionism, realism, and Japanese animation.
Courtesy of Lily Liu
For the exact same keyword, 3 different AI art generators gave completely different results.
“From my experience, these art generators are good at creating background images that focus not only on the overall mood, but also on the light and shadow effects of wild landscapes, city views, etc.” Liu said. “In some cases, such drawings don’t even need to be modified in any way. I think the graphics can be applied in a wide range of areas, such as design and novel illustrations.”
A picture drawn by an artificial intelligence art generator. The keywords for the photos are night view, top view, and blue light.
But machine artists aren’t perfect. They aren’t “smart” enough to generate specific objects, logos, or ready-to-use Japanese anime-style figures.
“The generated photo has only one layer, so it’s difficult to fix,” says Liu. “It’s not useful when high quality is required, such as drawing animations of his characters.”
Animation-style characters generated by AI are generally not allowed for use in professional productions.
Still, artificial intelligence is progressing faster than many expected.
“I believe that one day AI art generators will overcome all shortcomings and artists will have to accept that fact whether they like it or not,” she said.
In 2018, machine-created art gained widespread attention when a painting by a French team, Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy, was auctioned in the UK for $432,000. This painting was generated from the data of 15,000 portraits produced from the 14th century to the 20th century.
“Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy” was the first AI art piece sold at auction.
Last month, Jason Allen won an award for Digitally Assisted Art at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Competition in the United States for his work Théâtre D’Opéra Spatial. However, it turns out that this work was not simply “assisted” by technology. created by it. After the prize was awarded, it turned out that Allen used his AI art his generator Midjourney to create the artwork.
Artists and others were outraged, calling his work “cheating.”
“Théâtre D’Opéra Spatial” by Midjourney, winner of an American digital painting contest
This is a worldwide protest from people who believe that machine art is nothing but high-tech plagiarism. Developers feed millions of existing artwork into the machine so that it can “learn” the relationship between text and images. Original artists are generally not compensated for using their work.
Earlier this month, South Korean illustrator Kim Jung-gi died of a heart attack in France.
A day after the news broke, a Twitter user with the screen name “5You” claimed to have “trained” an artificial intelligence model on Kim’s work and shared it online as a “tribute” to Kim.
“Considering how complex his style is, I am quite pleased with the result,” he wrote. “Yes, creating such a file is a lot of work and I’ll give it to you, so if you use it, I’d appreciate it if you could give me some credit. ”
He soon faced an angry backlash from netizens, who accused his efforts of being an inappropriate way to show respect for Kim.
“Art generated by artificial intelligence falls under the public domain, not your work,” wrote a netizen with the screen name “Kindrick.” “People don’t have to and shouldn’t give you credit for this work that you didn’t create, but you can’t use artificial intelligence to replicate Kim Jung-gi’s work.” is an insult to his work.”
Above: Authentic artwork created by the late Korean illustrator Kim Jeong Gi. Below: A drawing drawn by a computer trained from Kim’s work.
where do you draw the line?
When a South Korean artist was live-streaming a painting online this week, viewers took screenshots of their unfinished work and sent it to an AI art generator, which allowed the artist to view a picture of the result before completing the work. posted on Twitter.
The incident sparked another wave of condemnation.
When a Korean artist was live-streaming her painting (right), viewers screenshotted her unfinished work and created AI art based on it (left). The incident sparked a lot of outrage on Twitter.
So are these mechanical artists art thieves?
The jury has not yet asked that question.
Lawyer Wang Renxian said on his WeChat official account that if an image generated by artificial intelligence is very similar to existing artwork, it can be defined as copyright infringement.
No existing legal precedent regarding such art disputes is available, but lawsuits regarding AI texts have been resolved in court.
In 2019, tech giant Tencent filed a lawsuit against Shanghai Yingxun Technology Co, accusing the company of interpolating original articles created by Tencent.
This article was written by “Dreamwriter”, an artificial intelligence writing program developed by Tencent and published on Tencent’s official website. Yingxun then posted the same article on her website.
The Nanshan District People’s Court in Shenzhen ruled that the original Tencent articles were classified as “literary works” and protected by copyright.
“From that case, we can see that works done by artificial intelligence are clearly protected under the law,” Wang wrote. “Because AI art generators are ultimately a means of production, it should be noted that they are still regulated by current legislation. I recommend it.”
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