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Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)

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Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski's style against his wishes using a LoRA model. While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski's art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5. The debate highlights the blurry line between innovation and infringement in the emerging field of AI art.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Greg wants to get paid, remove the threat of poverty from the loss of control and its a nonissue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not every human activity deserves compensation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Compensation shouldn't be an aspect of most human activity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But every human activity desirable to others deserve compensation. If you want someone to do something for you or make something for you or entertain you then it deserves compensation. The way ads on the internet have trained a lot of people to think that a lot of entertainment et cetera on the internet is free has been a negative for this. But at the same time that ad-supported model does make it more available to people that otherwise couldn't afford the price of admission. It's partly democratizing, but it's also a scourge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Even if that were true it wouldn't apply to this situation. The man wants monopoly rights to his art style. That's insane.