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

I hate this shit. I hate that we've devalued learning how to do new things and being terrible at stuff but doing it anyway for the joy of it. I hate how we need things NOW no matter how crap that makes the final product. Just draw things yourself, it's way more fun even if you're shit at it. It'd rather have 10,000 MS paint doodles than some glossy abomination that only looks OK if you don't look at it too long. I'd rather watch someone slowly improve at something rather than just giving up and having the plagiarism machine do it for them.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly I think whatever this Ghibli trend is about, it's just good advertisting for the real Studio Ghibli.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Ghibli

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago

I had my brother do this to me yesterday. My hate for those vampires grow more and more everyday.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

God forbid someone do something harmless that brings them an iota of joy.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (3 children)

From the environmental impact, to the social impact to the personal impact absolutely no part of it is harmless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"Personal impact" yeah bro me turning a picture of my cat into an anime style is literally ruining someone's life.

Stop being so dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Stealing another artists work when they have very loudly and publicly stated they do not support you stealing their work does have a personal impact.

You just don't see artists as people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You just don't see artists as people

Being comically over-dramatic just kind of reinforces my point.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

The environmental impact argument doesn't really work anymore now that you can produce AI generated images on a standard gaming PC. Also I'm not sure what you mean by "personal impact". I can understand "social impact" but if the person generated the image themselves, I assume they would enjoy it and not have a negative personal impact from it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years, and wasting power on stealing art is still wasting power even if you reduce it down to just running a local model on your gaming pc, which is a tiny fraction of users.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way. In this case the artist has made it incredibly clear that ai is a cancer on society and an affront to human life. I think that would affect a normal person that has any shame or empathy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

The training for the models still requires massive data centers, ai has caused data center power usage to double in the last five years

That's a good argument for stopping the training of AI models, but the models we have are here to stay.

The personal impact is the artist that does not want their art used this way.

Maybe they shouldn't have publicly released their art to the world if they didn't want people or machines to make things similar to it. Copying is not theft, I think Nina Paley is right about that.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

God forbid somebody thinks it's cringe and makes a joke about it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah? "You like a thing I don't, reeeeeeee kys" is proper reddit/4chan mentality and just childish, let people enjoy things.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

let people enjoy things.

Thanks, I'm enjoying this picture a lot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Got em.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

AI starts looking more like a fashion industry than a technology product, the trends are repeating. Last time style transfer was popular was 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I understand both sides tbh...

Like, sure people some artists will feel like their actual talent is being infringed, and in cases of those idiots calling themselves "AI Artists", I agree.

But also, I got an already existing picture of me and my fiancé in a different art style and we both looked cute, also did the picture of my cat. If I wanted a personalized quality cartoon of ourselves it would've cost me at least $150, so for a fun, already existing pic of ourselves I'm ok with it,specially if it's to keep to myself or maybe posting in a "hey check this out lol" way, I'm not saying I'm an artist or claiming is original content.

If I wanted a REALLY special picture made to my specifications by an actual artist, of course it would be worth it since I'd ask them to do a "custom" scene and such (that's the creativity part IMO), but just "translating" an already existing picture, I think is ok as long as you don't claim you're the artist or try and get credit for it either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Imagine caring more about protecting corporate copyright than bonding time with your very own life partner 🤡

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago

Imagine thinking most people care about corporate copyright and that there is nothing else objectionable about it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you’re forcing such ridiculous binary choices the problem is you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

It's literally the comic lmao

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's so much fun to block butthurt artists that are sad they aren't special anymore