AI image generators are learning from human illustrators without their consent. Now artists are speaking out.
Six-time Archibald Prize finalist Kim Leutwyler says "it feels like a violation" that their art was used without their consent to train the artificial intelligence technology behind increasingly popular text-to-image software.
There is still very little artists can do to protect their work from being used by AI, but some are beginning to opt out of certain systems. Others, however, are keen to opt in.How can artists know whether their work is being used to train AI? "It was very upsetting to see so many great Australian artists and emerging artists having their work used without their consent and then replicated in some form or another."Sydney-based visual artist and performer Tom Christophersen says it was "a bit of a shock" when they searched for their own art on the same website and discovered their work had also been captured by LAION-5B.
A mobile app called Lensa became popular late last year when it allowed users to create AI-generated portraits of themselves by combining their selfies with AI-generated art styles.after noticing what appeared to be their styles being replicated by the Lensa algorithm. Others noticed that some images created by the app had what appeared to be poor attempts at artists' signatures.
Tom Christophersen used haveibeentrained.com to find which of their artworks had been used to train AI."The AI is replicating the brushstrokes, the colour, the technique and all of those unique things that make an artist's practice so compelling," they said. Software company and creator of Photoshop, Adobe, has been criticised for allowing AI-generated images to be sold in its libraries of stock images.
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