Artificial intelligence, which is becoming more and more integrated into our lives with each passing day, has recently been mentioned with art. Yes; We are talking about artificial intelligence tools such as Stability AI and Midjourney that present the texts you have entered with magnificent visuals as if they were made by an artist. Moreover, the works produced by these artificial intelligences are delivered to millions through platforms such as DeviantArt.
These ingenuity of artificial intelligence have not satisfied the artists who earn their living with this work. Because in a new lawsuit filed in the US state of California, artists claim that they are unable to make money due to artificial intelligence. The three plaintiffs, Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan and Karla Ortiz, are seeking compensation from Stability AI, Midjourney, and DevianArt, which showcases content produced by these AIs.
Artificial intelligence is ‘stealing’ artists’ work! So how?
The plaintiffs argue that the platforms where the images created with artificial intelligence are exhibited/marketed act against copyright and competition, especially the DMCA. According to attorney Matthew Butterick, the artificial intelligence in question; They are trained using the work of artists, writers, developers, and all other creators, with no restrictions at this point. In other words, although artificial intelligence creates an original image, it references the works of real artists without paying any fee to produce those images.
How is artificial intelligence trained? Could the artists be right?
Machine learning is one of the most popular techniques in the artificial intelligence world. An artificial intelligence algorithm analyzes hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of reference content. As a result of these analyzes, he ‘imagines’ what objects, landscapes, people and almost anything you can convert into text might look like. In other words, when you write “Red cat” to the artificial intelligence, the artificial intelligence actually creates an image by referring to the previously presented cat images and red images.
So what exactly do artists seek compensation for? If you train an artificial intelligence only with articles written by Eray Kalelioğlu, artificial intelligence will start to write articles that seem to have come from Eray Kalelioğlu’s hand after a while. Therefore, although the article was produced with artificial intelligence, it takes Eray Kalelioğlu as a reference in the background. So, is there a compensation requirement here? Can we talk about a copyright? Since this stage of technology is partly hungry for new and concrete legal regulations, we leave the interpretation to the lawyers.
How are the avatars, which we have started to see in every medium lately, made?
There are countless apps used for making avatars. Here are some of them:
For examples of images produced by artificial intelligence:
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