Remixing Dali – Kevin’s Meandering Thoughts
Day 6 of the 12 Days of AI has us considering extra about mental property and copyright, explicit given the ways in which Generative AI plaforms have devoured up artistic endeavors and writing and pictures from the Web, usually with none permission from the creators and artists (thus, lawsuits are underway). The immediate in the present day asks us to attempt to get an AI platform to make use of an current murals, however with a slight twist.
I went into Adobe Firefly, and wrote this immediate: Recreate The Persistence of Reminiscence, 1931, Salvador Dali however as a substitute of clocks, use flamingos.
Firefly didn’t like that, and responded with a monkey face, saying ” uh oh,” and saying my immediate had not met its tips for AI picture creation. It did kick out some flamingos and clocks, however nothing that will resemble the fashion of Dali and his well-known portray.
Which is sweet, proper? It signifies that Firefly has some in-built protections of copyrighted materials. (One of many causes I lean in direction of Firefly is that it used its personal artwork database to construct itself, not different artistic endeavors from exterior its inside information). Since I couldn’t get what I wished, I simply began to mess around with a number of the filter and instruments and received the artwork above.
I attempted to do the identical immediate in OpenAI’s Dall-e however I suppose it’s closed off totally free customers (??). So I attempted a website known as Img2Go, and it didn’t appear to have many qualms about my immediate. I did a free model so I didn’t get too many choices to tweak the settings, however I believe I might have achieved extra to get to the guts of my immediate if I had a paid account.
And I did the identical with Secure Diffusion, and didn’t get any warnings however didn’t get an incredible piece of artwork, both in my free account.
This little experiment simply exhibits that the dearth of guidelines and laws signifies that copyright infringement and the safety of mental property remains to be cloudy in these (nonetheless) early days of Generative AI. I hope that we will discover some stability — paying artists for his or her work in databases and permitting customers to be artistic, with out outright theft of identification, fashion and materials.
Peace (and flamingos),
Kevin
