Artists are fighting back online and in the courts against artificial intelligence that mimics in seconds the techniques they have spent years perfecting.
This year, the emergence of generative artificial intelligence programs caused an uproar in the art world since they can effectively carry out commands like painting a dog like Sarah Andersen, a cartoonist, or a nymph, an illustration,.
The three C’s at the center of the struggle to change this are consent, credit, and compensation for the original artist whose work is being copied by AI.
Artists Andersen and Ortiz launched a class action lawsuit in January against the image-generating AI models DreamUp, Midjourney, and Steady Diffusion, which were trained using examples of online art.
Andersen told AFP that she was “violated” when she first saw an AI drawing that looked like one of her “Fangs” comics.
She tweeted an angry response, which quickly gained attention and prompted other artists to share similar experiences with her.
The lawsuit’s supporters want to set a precedent for how the law treats generative AI models that steal artists’ work.
