and used it as a 1-1 reference for their own painting to sell, without asking for permission, i think that would be within their right. along with say, collage artists or samplers who rip directly from source material.
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as i said, while its unfortunate that AI is a step in his process and i wouldn't buy a painting from him due to it, the fact that he used source material that wasn't his for financial gain seems like an odd point to have
at least in these circumstances where it is an individual doing their own paintings. if ifs on the scale of a corporation, obviously the artists involved deserve compensation
i mean, personally if i found out an artist had done 1:1 copies of photos without permission and then sold them to profit, I would be done with that artist just the same. to me, the AI usage is incidental in the issue of taking a 1:1 copy and profiting off it.
i had an incident some years back where my art was stolen and used as a reference for a "copy this picture" contest, in which a bunch of people imitated my work and were paid to do so. i take this stance as someone who had nothing i could do about it when it happened but watch others profit off it.
if he'd asked permission and copied references by others who allowed it, i wouldn't have the issue. or if he'd done transformative work and not used AI, i wouldn't have cared. (the AI is a dealbreaker outright anyway, regardless of whether it's transformative or not, to be fair)
thinking further, there's also probably a degree of scale that's relevant as well. if a small artist paints and sells a copy of someone's photo, i'm not gonna care much, but this guy is selling the painting, plus prints, plus profiting off lessons to teach others to do the same.
thats fair! its your right to decide whether or not you want your art used like that, and i'm sorry you had to deal with that situation. i also agree that using genai as part of the process is a no-go. but i believe that if at the end of the process there is a human hand putting pen to paper >
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