His style has been requested over 400,000 times, even surpassing legends like Picasso and Da Vinci—all without his consent.

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.

  • Pulse@dormi.zone
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    1 year ago

    Because that is what they’re doing, just with extra steps.

    The company pulled down his work, fed it to their AI, then sold the AI as their product.

    Their AI wouldn’t work, at all, without the art they “clicked on”.

    So there is a difference between me viewing an image in my browser and me turning their work into something for resell under my name. Adding extra steps doesn’t change that.

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The company pulled down his work, fed it to their AI, then sold the AI as their product.

      If you read the article, not even that is what’s going on here. Stability AI:

      • Removed Rutkowski’s art from their training set.
      • Doesn’t sell their AI as a product.
      • Someone else added Rutkowski back in by training a LoRA on top of Stability’s AI.
      • They aren’t selling their LoRA as a product either.

      So none of what you’re objecting to is actually happening. All cool? Or will you just come up with some other thing to object to?