Our little instance is closing to 6 months of operations and it occurs to me I never really asked for some open feedback from our peeps. So I wanted to start a discussion to see your concerns and comments in general. So tell me, in the context of the divisions by zero, what bothers you, what pleases you, what would you like to see improved.
Feel free to share your thoughts about anything.
I guess it comes down to whether AI should have the same rights as humans, or rather those of a tool.
The idea is not to stop making diffusion art, but to limit it a little, so the tool cannot be used to shamelessly copy a distinctive artists style without consent. Similar limitations would also be healthy for other disciplines, except perhaps those which generally are not considered hobbies or recreation.
And you are right about relevancy to the post, though I think it’s good to talk about this as it is a technology which soon will fill a considerable amount of our lives, and the instance kinda focuses on it.
Assuming copyright is ethical to begin with, you can’t copyright things like style or genre (in the US). Artists that complain about their style being “stolen” are overreaching to begin with.
I remember an Artist in the Furry Fandom complaining and inciting harassment over people using their “closed species” without buying it in an auction despite the fact that species can’t be copyrighted and they were denied trademark as well. So when it comes to these types of manbabies who get upset and cry over someone is drawing something that looks too much like their imaginary friends they should not be honored and treated with validity, they should be laughed at. It’s a similar story here with styles.
Styles and Species cannot be copyrighted and trying to make them exclusive is too far and could be considered gatekeeping. They’re only being like this because AI art just like Autotune in music back in the day is seen as “cheating” and doesn’t make them sound as unreasonable and unhinged, if they did the same thing with an artist who had a similar style to theirs it would seem much more unreasonable, and there would be no debate.