since midjourney is fed on stolen art, the output is plagiarising artists without permission. then this artist does a 1:1 copy, and cannot ask permission, and sells it for money. the ethical issue here is that it's being used to directly copy and then sell. - ThreadSky

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shroompunk.com • 17 days ago

since midjourney is fed on stolen art, the output is plagiarising artists without permission. then this artist does a 1:1 copy, and cannot ask permission, and sells it for money.

the ethical issue here is that it's being used to directly copy and then sell.

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nixiecoyote.bsky.social•17 days ago

i won't disagree that midjourney is a plagiarism machine, though i feel like it is unfair to say him selling his work is unethical. for example, if an artist looked up "roaring lion" on google images and found a photo of a non-CC image of a lion from a professional photographer >

nixiecoyote.bsky.social•17 days ago

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.

nixiecoyote.bsky.social•17 days ago

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

nixiecoyote.bsky.social•17 days ago

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

shroompunk.com•17 days ago

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.

shroompunk.com•17 days ago

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.

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