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What AI Developers Want Artists to Know about AI

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If I'm honest, I really hope you team up with other high profile artists and teachers to do something to stop this. This video showed me that the developers of this technology are either lying or incredibly naïve, and given that they are charging money for these tools its probably the former. The fact that they are selling a program that was built off the copyrighted work of innumerable independent artists and corporations is absurd. This guy basically responds to the issue of the copyrighted work in their dataset by saying it doesn't matter. That somehow, they are not responsible for the data they trawled off the web being full of stuff they had no legal permission to use. He then claims that even if they did remove it, it wouldn't change anything. But that is a lie: if they didn't need it, they wouldn't be using it. Its inexcusable, and the fact that they already did it is no reason we can't hold them accountable. Please team up with other creators to file legal action against them. AI is going to be a big part of the future, but as Steven Zapata pointed out, we do not have to roll over an accept it being done in a way that has zero respect for the people that came before it. AI still has a long way to go before it overtakes the industry completely, so there's still time to at least try to soften the blow and make sure these people who blatantly stole from others are held accountable for it. You've helped me so much with art, and for a few years I genuinely believed art could be my future. I believed it could be the future of so many others as well, and eagerly pointed them to your content so that we could learn and grow together. Now I am pleading with you to do what you can to stop people from stealing the work of others. You have the power to really represent a lot of artists, both big and small. Please do something.

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The topic of AI has taken over the art community lately. People are angry, Scared, excited. People are now suing each other. There's drama.

I think we should be holding bad actors accountable and pushing back on things that we feel are unethical or illegal. This is a must to have a balance of people who are pushing full speed to develop this stuff and people who are saying "wait slow down, let's do this right".

And I think the way to actually be part of the conversation is to try to be respectful to everyone we talk to, whether we agree with them or not. We artists should be having mature friendly conversations with people in the AI space to help guide a path to a less painful transition, whatever that could be..

So, today I'll be speaking with Evan Conrad. Evan is the founder of Everyprompt.com, and runs AIGrant.org, which invests in and supports AI startups. Their advisors and team include CEOs and top people from MidJourney, Stability, Tesla, Instagram, Github, and Apple.

If you wish to contact Evan Conrad to ask questions about art and AI, you can either DM on Twitter or email at art@everyprompt.com

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Tech vs Art
05:46 - What's AGI
07:36 - Can't stop the Border
10:19 - People Making Profit
12:25 - Stability AI
19:07 - Ethical Part of Collecting Data
12:27 - Making Specific Art Styles with AI
25:09 - Automation and Value
28:27 - Transitional Period
39:52 - Predicting the future
43:17 - How AIGrant Collects Data
53:50 - Are we training AI when we use it?
56:54 - Why Not Let AI Do That
01:00:31 - Deep Mind
01:09:15 - West vs East Coast
01:14:15 - Advice for Artists
01:17:37 - everyprompt.com

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