(Editing to add: Don’t look at the notes/replies of this post, just in case someone decides to be a dick and post spoilers onto it.) Nobody has yet, but that doesn’t mean they won’t.
It’s cute that the slasher fandom adopted Brahms but please do not be disrespectful to slasher artists/writers who don’t write or draw for him. The Boy (2016) isn’t a slasher film, Brahms isn’t a slasher villain, and people are fully within their right not to include him in their slasher fanworks if they don’t want to. People never have to justify why they don’t create for a certain character anyway, but they especially shouldn’t feel pressured, guilted, or harassed for not creating for a character when that character doesn’t fall into their interests.
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
