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At first glance I thought this **** was just posting my work and claiming it as their own… and I was a bit angry. On closer examination, this is AI generated, and “angry” doesn’t come close to describing how I feel.
The second image is the original, just for reference.
Followup tweet:
Seems more like the original picture has been used as an image prompt for an AI image generator, to just make it look a bit different.
Though I may be misunderstanding and stating the obvious.
Yeah not fully convinced about what is going on. The fact that the blurred background is nearly identical is not something I've seen in other examples of over-tuning.
I don't even believe the sentiment is wrong. Generative algorithms have no conception of reality and the companies behind them are stealing work. However there seems to be a lot of misconception about what aspects are being stolen, because the reality is that the concepts that are stolen are much more abstract of lines and pixels than we can easily parse.
That was my guess. It looks like they used an image-to-image operation within AI to produce a "new" image.