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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9086502" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>One part of the controversy around generative algorithmic art (aka "AI" art, though I hate that term because it evokes images of Data sitting at his easel from Star Trek: The Next Generation rather than what it is, autocorrect with delusions of grandeur) is the source data for the algorithm.</p><p></p><p>At least one Wizards of the Coast artist on Bluesky (not linked because it's still invite-only and you need an account to view) stated they were upset and felt betrayed by Wizards of the Coast using "AI" to "enhance" their work.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's highly likely that this person's work, which was submitted likely back in the spring if not earlier before concerns of generative algorithms were as widespread and artists began adding clauses to their contracts to prevent its use, is now part of those databases without their knowledge or consent because the terms of service of almost every "AI" program on the market adds all work submitted to the database. Meaning this person did work for Wizards of the Coast in good faith, and Wizards then provided it to someone else to "enhance" it who then handed the artwork over to some techbros to do with it as they pleased.</p><p></p><p>If this doesn't sound like a big deal to you because artwork done for Wizards of the Coast is almost exclusively work-for-hire so Wizards owns all the rights, allow me to explain a similar situation with SAG-AFTRA actors and why they're striking against the studios: Film studios and television production companies want the right to scan actors for their likeness and be allowed to use that scan in any way they see fit in any future project going forward without any further compensation or even making them aware of what they're doing with their image. And there are reports that Marvel Studios has already done this on the production of recent shows by scanning background actors without informing them of what they were doing or how the scans would be used.</p><p></p><p>That is essentially what has happened to artists who worked on Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants. Their work was submitted to the database of a third-party company to be copied and reused without their permission or any compensation, damaging that artist's ability to get future work. Just like a work-for-hire contract with an artist costs more because the company is buying all rights for future use, this sort of exploitation of the artist's work should also have higher compensation and be disclosed as part of the process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 9086502, member: 6669048"] One part of the controversy around generative algorithmic art (aka "AI" art, though I hate that term because it evokes images of Data sitting at his easel from Star Trek: The Next Generation rather than what it is, autocorrect with delusions of grandeur) is the source data for the algorithm. At least one Wizards of the Coast artist on Bluesky (not linked because it's still invite-only and you need an account to view) stated they were upset and felt betrayed by Wizards of the Coast using "AI" to "enhance" their work. It's highly likely that this person's work, which was submitted likely back in the spring if not earlier before concerns of generative algorithms were as widespread and artists began adding clauses to their contracts to prevent its use, is now part of those databases without their knowledge or consent because the terms of service of almost every "AI" program on the market adds all work submitted to the database. Meaning this person did work for Wizards of the Coast in good faith, and Wizards then provided it to someone else to "enhance" it who then handed the artwork over to some techbros to do with it as they pleased. If this doesn't sound like a big deal to you because artwork done for Wizards of the Coast is almost exclusively work-for-hire so Wizards owns all the rights, allow me to explain a similar situation with SAG-AFTRA actors and why they're striking against the studios: Film studios and television production companies want the right to scan actors for their likeness and be allowed to use that scan in any way they see fit in any future project going forward without any further compensation or even making them aware of what they're doing with their image. And there are reports that Marvel Studios has already done this on the production of recent shows by scanning background actors without informing them of what they were doing or how the scans would be used. That is essentially what has happened to artists who worked on Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants. Their work was submitted to the database of a third-party company to be copied and reused without their permission or any compensation, damaging that artist's ability to get future work. Just like a work-for-hire contract with an artist costs more because the company is buying all rights for future use, this sort of exploitation of the artist's work should also have higher compensation and be disclosed as part of the process. [/QUOTE]
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