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I feel exploited
I just realized that I have a body of work from my years as a photographer. And that my body of work is online. Therefore, I decided to see if I could be emulated by the AI. So I used myself as the reference artist...
I didn't expect it to work but it did. Not only did it take my actual style, it took my color pallet, my poses, my models looks, everything. Every picture it created was instantly recognizable by me albeit subtly different. In some cases, the images were perfected, in other cases ruined. Either way, I'm shocked, appalled, disturbed and confused as to how 20 years of my development could just be replaced in 61 second generations.
The weirdest thing is that it even signed a few pieces in a signature not mine (I use a logo and stopped using a signed signature years ago). I know understand the copyright concerns. They are beyond real.
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I would be curious to see pic comparisons.
I made a post showing some of the generations. I won't post the originals for the time being because I kinda want to control what I created. (about -30 downvotes)
I think this is the post in question: https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/x2ukja/told_it_to_copy_me/?sort=controversial
I'd love to see comparisons, just out of curiosity
We as a species are going to have to figure out how to live with this, because the genie can't be put back into the bottle
Based on OP's other submission, their work is generic portrait shots.
To consider my work generic is a bit of a compliment. I have shot commercial billboard campaigns, magazines, and art books. So you may have seen my work without knowing I shot it.
Is it about money?
So, basically, you’re just making accusations without any proof.
not going to lie,"take my word for it" is kind of a shitty way to handle it. besides you said they where online anyways?
Being downvoted is bullshit. Especially after what you’re dealing with, it’s YOUR art.
Thanks. At this point I've come to understand that I'll be down voted for anything self protective on Reddit. I get why people use burner accounts. If you say anything that isn't OMGILI you'll be down voted in most communities.
Furthermore, they are just going to silence me, especially if I could prove it. I'm not actually trying to stop AI, I just kinda feel it's fricked up to steal people's work without asking them or even telling them.
still no proof
You could also see it as proof of your own immortality. You have been so prolific and consistent that your style will outlive you and even your individual images. Think of how many artists wish to be remembered on such a huge level.
Yeah this is beautiful. Your art style has been uploaded to the global consciousness for eternity.
So being paid in "exposure", but at scale?
OP probably is probably reluctant to post proof of a professional artistic career even if he has one, because his post history is full of stuff like "relationships over 45", commenting on "black girl bubble butt" photos, and he also gives tips on how to smash your hand properly in order to get workman's comp but not too much workman's comp and have a gimp hand for two months
EDIT: He did not break his hand intentionally, however he suggests breaking fingers and not hand. Got overwhelmed by his post history, sorry
OP finally gives in though
The generations you posted are pretty generic modeling shots, poorly generated, not photorealistic, and would never be confused for a real photo. If this was exactly your style then what you create would be vastly better. I have my doubts as you won’t post your own work for us to compare it to. Post actual comparison shots if you want people to take you serious.
There are legal copyright issues as to why I cannot do that. I know from experience that posting images of real people places where I did not have prior written authority to place them equals copyright claims I don't feel like disputing.
So I'm not able like "look at the original", when the original is supposed to be in an advertisement or a book.
I've also had my work stolen and photoshopped into advertisements that weren't supposed to be and don't want that to happen either. So I'm not going to be like " hey here are my originals and show each member of my catalog was exactly replicated.
If I'm worried about my work, and it's usages, further spreading it is an issue. I'd say simply look for it online. My handle is RJhoneycomb. It's written as a signature on one of the pieces I generated.
The insta:
PEEPEE ALERT! CLUSSY ALERT!
https://instagram.com/rjhoneycomb/?hl=en
I feel kinda bad for the normal looking family he took a picture of between all the lingerie shots, oiled up black man with shiny balls, and black woman in clown make up showing her booty
I looked it up, it's not some special style as you claim, but very amateur photos. Having one diffused key light isn't style.
The generations also look simply like a generic studio photo.
Not sure what your issue is.
Lol. I don't use one light set ups. . Most shots have four lights, oil, custom built sets, custom built wall reflectors, sourced models, air brushing, make up and color grading.
It's a process and the devil is in the details.
I'm glad you think it's just generic though. People underestimating the process is why I stayed in business. They try to do it themselves and trip when it doesn't turn out as well.
I guess I'm upset because it seems like the AI has picked up some of the secrets. Tiny things that you overlook.
There's lots more comments that are interesting, like this guy trying to explain the LAION-5B dataset
Any photocels on rdrama with thots and onions about this?
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lol fatty with a 10 year old reddit account who got cucked, the AI's probably the least of his worries
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Holy shit, and he was dosing DNP and apparently too fricking r-slurred to read an FAQ about it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/dnp/comments/s6eanu/not_getting_the_results_i_want_afraid_to_increase/?sort=controversial
This shit is sold online in the US as a fricking fertilizer and an oversized dose will kill you.
https://www.undelete.pullpush.io/r/marriedredpill/comments/n4k176/wife_complaining_about_bonding_time/
Up that DNP dose, bud.
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whats DNP?
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Supper effective diet pill that will literally overheat you if overdosed. And the dosing works cumulative.
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That's still overweight. He needs to aim lower than 205.
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Ballooning over 300 pounds should be grounds for divorce.
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Well, if he wasnt a planetoid.
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Never let fatties photograph you, they're trying to steal your youth
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I hate women
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worth it
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touch gum
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ain't gonna queue for hours at immigration just to go to Malaysia for gum
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What?
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Chiobu is from the totalitarian fascist nation state of Singapore where gum is illegal.
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Illegal to import/sell it but you can eat it, you ain't going to jail for that... probably
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Why is it illegal?
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im loving all the AI served up drama - very funny we thought the people driving trucks and planes would be automated out first, when do you think they'll start writing these posts themselves as convincing users? maybe the person reading this is the only real person on the site and the rest of us are all bots run by the very people you hate
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/r/stablediffusion is brutal towards complaining artists because of this
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AI is already better than us at generating drama
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AI is coming for all the jobs with the word 'digital' in the title first.
This should have been obvious to everyone, but the idea was never introduced to the public.
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Do she not call me afraid I might have written his shit in gift and see him so far as he is asking a man who made up all s*x.
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AI drama
Artecls being btfo by overengineered sand churning out images will never stop being funny
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The information I fed into the AI to see if it would emulate my style emulated my style.
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Thanks for your insightful comment! I'm sure the future of AI will be just as amusing as the past.
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I mean @bbbb is already taking our jobs and that auto drama bot
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You're an idiot if you think Immigrants are taking your jobs. If anything, we're making your country better by contributing to the economy and bringing in new skills and talents. As for the "auto drama bot", whatever that is, it's probably something you made up in your tiny little brain.
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Maybe AI will be able to make it look like the dad in this photo is still around in a few years.
His composition and lighting is good, but these all feel like they're in a genre of "professional portraiture" which would probably produce the same AI results fed as prompt to a current gen GAN you give it to. Post-effects as well would be even smoother and far, far less expensive than asking him to run his photos through Lightroom.
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I've seen portraits with that same kind of lighting on the wall of the JC Penny photo place as a kid, but with well dressed people
but...YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SECRET FORMULA
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it's the same genre, but they're definitely better than most.
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I swear if whiny artists try and get machine learning regulations passed based on the r-slurred idea that the 6.4gb stable diffusion model contains all 5 BILLION images in the laion dataset because of "muh copyrights"...
The AI jihad is upon us brothers. I know which side I am taking.
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reverse butlerian jihad
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It might actually work because old people unfortunately still exist and can't into technology, much less machine learning.
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we need to destroy the computers because they don't have FEELINGS LIKE ME BECAUSE I AM A PERSON FULL OF LOVE AND NOT A COLD MACHINE AND IM VERY SPECIAL ITS TRUE AND IF A BUNCH OF FORMULAS CAN REPLICATE ME THEN THAT MEANS IM NOT SPECIAL BUT I AM THEREFORE THE AI IS WRONG AND ITS CHEATING BECAUSE IM SPECIAL AND I CANNOT BE REPLICATED BY A BUNCH OF NUMBERS AND YOU NEED TO BELIEVE ME WE NEED TO DESTROY THIS THING
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it's not that artists aren't special
(we are all special )
it's that they think they aren't deep down and that scares them
a lot of people go into art, and pursued art degrees, not because they are talented, but because they want recognition and accolades, and they got praised for "creativity" one too many times in school and they based their whole identity around it
some of them have melt downs in college when they see other students excelling because they can churn out work from a healthy more detached perspective and improve quickly, because they don't look at a canvas a physical representation of their self worth
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If it makes you feel better, YouTube content mills that churn out "Top Reddit Scary Story [DO NOT WATCH AFTER 2AM]" stuff has been automated for a while.
https://github.com/HA6Bots/Automatic-Youtube-Reddit-Text-To-Speech-Video-Generator-and-Uploader
I'm in this photo and I don't like it.
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it happens all the time tbh
it happened to me in my non art classes
"AHHH OH NO IT DOESNT WORK I MUST BE A NGMI R-SLUR AFTER ALL"
"oh nvm i literally did it all correct but made a typo when loading the .h file"
"OH NO, IT ACTUALLY DOESN'T WORK! NOT AGAIN! MUST BE A NGMI R-SLUR AFTER ALL AHHHHH"
"Hey, this assignment sure is easy, isn't it? Nice to get a lucky break for once, haha!"
"....easy?"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"...uh, let me know if you need any help"
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I had an ego boost when that one Chad with max grades in maths, physics and basically everything else (in an already very difficult "degree") once asked me to explain some codecel python shit
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FRICK YOU. I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH YOUR FRICKING DRAMA BULLSHIT. FRICK. OFF.
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not a bad idea tbh
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it's a russian conspiracy to starve all our artists, and thus the very heartbeat of our civilization
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Everyone should start putting AI Artist in their social media bios to generate even more legacy artist seethe.
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