No To Generative AI

An AI image generator works by taking your written description and generating a picture based on the given prompt. But where does the actual picture come from? It surely is based on something, right? There is a lot of neural, machine learning, blah blah fancy stuff involved, but basically the AI tools are "trained" with already existing images.

For this, robots are scraping astronomic amounts of content online on photographer and artist websites, personal websites, photography agencies, social media... etc etc.

No permissions are asked. No compensations are made.

You can search your content on this website

https://haveibeentrained.com/

to find out if, or more likely, how many of your images have been stolen to train popular AI tools so far. (The database is so vast though that don't expect

to find all)

Generative AI just rearranges and puts together pieces of already existing content. It doesn't generate anything new. Generative AI tools do not respect copyright or privacy.

You may have heard the nonsensical concept "AI Art". Pictures generated by an AI tool lack human authorship. AI has no consciousness, no emotion, no psychological experience, no intention of its own - it can only copy. And as it can only copy, and much of that content under copyright, this is also stealing.

Generative AI may be able to generate pictures, but these pics are not art.

Typing a prompt to generate an image with an AI tool is not creating art, so there are no "AI Artists" either.

I encourage everyone to choose real photography and real art - not pictures made by an AI tool.