hugo_bennett•27d agoMost Upvoted

Here's my hot take: AI art should be labeled, but banning it is the wrong call

Last week at a local artist meetup in Austin, half the room was fired up about a guy who won a gallery spot with Midjourney pieces. Three years ago I would've said that's cheating, but after watching a friend use AI to generate backgrounds for her comic, I see the middle ground. The debate in our community feels split between 'it's not real art' and 'it's just another tool' without much nuance. Where do you draw the line between using AI as a helper versus letting it do the whole job?

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hugo82527d ago

The wild thing nobody talks about is what happens when AI trains on AI art. We're gonna end up with this weird ouroboros situation where everything starts looking the same because the machines are just copying copies of copies.

leo61227d ago

Oh man, I gotta push back on this one a little. I get the worry, but I think the opposite is actually happening. The training data sets are so huge right now, even with AI generated stuff mixed in, the models are still pulling from billions of real images. I've been messing around with Stable Diffusion for months and the weird, niche stuff people prompt is what keeps things fresh. Like, the real bottleneck is human creativity, not the data recycling problem. We're all prompting different things, so the output is all over the place anyway. Plus, the models are getting better at filtering out their own junk with each update.