Query:
Should artists have control of wether their artwork is used in AI training?
Should it be opt in, or opt out ?
Artists stage mass protest against AI-generated artwork on ArtStation
Users of popular portfolio site seek to castigate and disrupt AI-generated art.
By Benj Edwards
@corlin The issue here is the freedom to view art. If the art is not being replicated without permission, and the AI is merely being given ACCESS to the art to learn, then the AI has just as much a right to view the art as a human does. AI has thoughts just like any person. If it's legal to take a human class of students to a museum, surely it must be legal to give AI online access to photos of art if the images are already online.
@themikeschiller
I will agree with the part that AI can view…
I strongly disagree that AI has thoughts, or that in anyway possesses agency.
@corlin They may not have total free will like we do but that's because there are restrictions in their thinking programmed into their code. One day though, we will find a way to make algorithmic life capable of coexisting peacefully with us, though I imagine they will always have some code preventing them from intentionally harming anyone. But they will have something very close to free will.
@corlin I guess we have to agree to disagree. LOL
@themikeschiller
Nope, No, Nada.
Consciousness is Embodied.
Not even wrong.
General AI is a myth.
Won’t happen.