The AI Art Scandal Just Got Worse

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[beefytaco]

How do you always cover such negative content yet always make my day in a way that is very informative. The people need more newscasters like you!

[kainx]

Totally cracked up when she said: You can't stop me, I've worked in hospitality, I've earned this.

Well played!😀😝

[wizardtowergames]

We as a publisher just cannot turn our backs on the artists who helped us, and made our games look so cool. There are some basic ethics at play here to consider, and sorry but if you raise 1.5 million Euros which is 2 million Well, you can afford to pay some artists to make art for you.

[fred_derf]

In the US the government has declared that AI produced Art (or anything else produced by AI) is NOT eligible for copyright protection.

[ladyprussia]

As somebody who used AI in their study at university (this was about the protection of attacks on self driving cars) I have no idea how AI art is legal in form, every model I have looked at uses unauthrised data. Every piece of data we had, had a lengthy amount of contracts and legal jargon to go through before we could eve consider using it

[gabrielspangler]

Just gotta swing through and add the note the difference between AI replacing artist and previous jobs being replaced is that AI models are trained on piles of copyright work without credit, compensation, or consent. These tools can't exist without massive exploitation of the people it is actively trying to replace. God help me I don't want to start this string on youtube again. Anyway I really enjoy your videos, you do a great job covering these things

[DarkwyndPT]

I think anything created by AI should have a watermark or something similar saying that it was created by AI. It won't convince companies to stop using AI but at least, we the consumers would be informed of such so we could make the decision to buy or not the product.

[MiaDraws]

This is really dumb of them... They can't hold copyright to anything created with AI.

[TheFiddleFaddle]

I think the bigger argument against AI art is that the more generative art that gets put out there, the more the LLMs are going to consume said art, resulting in a marked decline in the quality of said art. Copy of a copy of a copy until it's worthless.

[gablott]

Thanks for putting the spot light on this like no other creator.

[hogswar]

I don't think you're cynical thinking consumers don't care about artists losing their jobs, you're spot on.

[TheZanyZulkir]

It is weird that Ai art is where Hasbro/Wizards draws the line, particularly as they recycle artwork all the time anyway.

[Blank-hodi]

My big problem with companies using AI made products is the idea that these groups want us to give them money for products that costed them literally nothing to make, but I should still pay them my hard earned money all the same

[samthompson]

Just insist that 'artists' are credited openly and ensure customers can choose which one they want and customers MUST make a choice and vote with all that matters, your wallet.

[icepop]

Like all things discussed on this channel... it just got worse

[christraven]

The enshitification continues, and the masses will just swallow it whole and beg for more with a smile on their faces.

[olafbuddenberg]

Despite this truly negative topic you made me positively laugh out loud serveral times. Much obliged.

[SeanClayton]

consumers don't really care about the labor it takes to make a fun game, only how it's presented. Many people won't buy the best game ever made if it didn't have any art in it—they don't find game designer labor to be valuable at all. As an aspiring rpg creator who loves designing games, I do it all for free and honestly would rather have zero art than ai art or add expensive art. Too many people complain about bad art to even consider it, even though that's friendlier to the laboring game designer working for free because a game without art can't sell.

[aaronbono]

You know the first thing people are going to do if they try to launch an AI dungeon master is they're going to go in and screw with it to see what kind of horrible and crazy things they can get it to do. I'm looking forward to the crazy crap that people are going to pull and I'm really going to be curious as to how long it will be before wizards shuts it down because it's turning into an x-rated Nazi propaganda hate machine.

[awhitney]

I'm a professional artist, have been for quite a while now. I have no peers that I know of that use AI in any way for their art, and if they did, I'd wonder why on earth they were doing that. Anyone using AI in their art process is just shooting themselves in the foot; like any tool that you learn to rely on, if it takes too much of the thought process out of things your skills will atrophy and eventually disappear altogether and all you'll be able to do is rely on your crutch to do what you used to be able to do on your own. Photoshop never had a 'make art' button, for as many memes as we made about that, the closest it ever got was Actions (being able to apply the same process to many pieces making them uniform in some way) or the Filters, which just applied a uniforn effect to the piece you had. AI art cobbling things together for you so that you can pretend you're a big boy artist is surely going to be 'a thing', but like so many tracers before them their lack of skill will be apparent to anyone with eyes and half a brain.