I recently saw a deck for sale which states that AI was used in the creation of the art. It's made me think about this being more of a thing in the future.
AI is used in so many different ways in software today, but what I'm concerned about is the use of the AI art generators which have been trained by scraping art and images from the web, as that imagery can then appear in the compostions the AI generates (when a user inputs a text prompt describing what they want the image to be of).
That art has been scraped without the consent of the artists who created it. This has been causing a lot of anger and uproar amongst artists over the past year (and IMO rightly so), with some boycotts of leading online art platforms. There have been many artists who have discovered their art being used in AI generated art. It raises all kinds of copyright issues and the legal system hasn't caught up yet with the disruption the new tech is causing.
There are lawsuits going on with artists suing some of these AI generator companies for breach of copyright. Some of those who have been under fire are Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney.
So I think it's something that needs to be addressed regarding the creation of tarot decks in the community. Creators should be aware that if they are using an AI art generator to create images rather than using their own artwork, the image generated could be composed of art taken from other artists without their consent. I think at the very least deck creators should be transparent about using AI so that buyer's are aware and can make up their own mind about how they feel about that. My personal feelings are that I won't buy any deck that's used AI in this way to generate the images.
Your thoughts?
AI is used in so many different ways in software today, but what I'm concerned about is the use of the AI art generators which have been trained by scraping art and images from the web, as that imagery can then appear in the compostions the AI generates (when a user inputs a text prompt describing what they want the image to be of).
That art has been scraped without the consent of the artists who created it. This has been causing a lot of anger and uproar amongst artists over the past year (and IMO rightly so), with some boycotts of leading online art platforms. There have been many artists who have discovered their art being used in AI generated art. It raises all kinds of copyright issues and the legal system hasn't caught up yet with the disruption the new tech is causing.
There are lawsuits going on with artists suing some of these AI generator companies for breach of copyright. Some of those who have been under fire are Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney.
So I think it's something that needs to be addressed regarding the creation of tarot decks in the community. Creators should be aware that if they are using an AI art generator to create images rather than using their own artwork, the image generated could be composed of art taken from other artists without their consent. I think at the very least deck creators should be transparent about using AI so that buyer's are aware and can make up their own mind about how they feel about that. My personal feelings are that I won't buy any deck that's used AI in this way to generate the images.
Your thoughts?
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