I am genuinely trying to get better at art. I’m not there yet (likely never will be), the lying machine is still better than me.
The context:
This is my sketch.
And this is what the ai output.
I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it. I know there are people who will tell me that I’m terrible for using ai at all. I’m also sorry if this is the wrong community to ask this question (ask reddit would delete my post instantly if I tried to post there).
Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that’s my skillset. So if I were to use the ai upscaled version for my book, well, I’m asking for opinions.
Being slop or not is not the issue, the real question is is it morally correct. To me it depends on your usage, are you generating stuff for yourself? Then it doesn’t matter. Are you generating stuff to communicate to the artist you’re hiring your intended vision of the thing, or building a mood board or similar? Then it’s probably okay in my book. Are you using the generated image for something or selling it? Then it’s wrong.
Is it wrong though? I won’t buy digital art at all because it’s too assisted already.
But if someone does buy it, isn’t it on them?
I mean all the little errors all the mediocrity of it, why would any one pay for that?
Digital art is not any more assisted than digital writing, do you also refuse to buy ebooks?
I’m talking about the morality of it, whether someone pays for it or not is irrelevant. Child porn is morally wrong, regardless of there being a market for it.
Are you seriously going to use an absurdly extreme example for this discussion? It makes your argument pointless because it is an absurd example to compare this to.
It’s the same argument you’re making, that morality doesn’t matter as long as there are paying customers, if morality doesn’t matter because there are paying customers for AI stolen art, why does it matter for child pornography? Either morality matters or it doesn’t.
No its not. Jaywalking is the same as murder right?
These things are miles apart.
And I don’t believe in ownership of ideas so it can’t be theft. Teaching a system of weights is not stealing. Sorry. Math is math.
The morality would be if they claimed to have drawn all of it without assistance. That is fraud, and lying to your customer is inmoral.