After his initial surprise, Greg Rutkowski thinks AI-generated art is a good way to reach new audiences, but it still makes them miserable.Rutkowski is a Polish digital artist who specializes in creating dreamy futuristic landscapes using classic painting styles.
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He previously created game illustrations for popular games such as Sony’s Horizon: West End, Ubisoft’s Anno 1800, Dungeons and Dragons, and Magic: The Gathering. But the veteran illustrator was assaulted by a whole new world of AI-powered illustration.
He tried searching the Internet for his own name to see if an illustration he had created had been published. But in the online results, although there are many links to his name, many were not created by him.
Rutkowski said: “It only happened in a month. What if it was a year? Since the internet is full of art created by artificial intelligence, I may not be able to find my work.”
Stability.AI trained the model on the LAION-5B dataset (compiled by the German non-profit organization LAION) and created Stable Diffusion.
Technologist and author Andy Baio downloads and analyzes some of the data from Stable Diffusion, LAION puts together the dataset and filters the watermarked images and unsightly images such as logo images) to narrow the range.
Baio analyzed 12 million of the 600 million images used to train the model and found that a significant portion of them came from third-party sites like Pinterest and art shopping sites like Fine Art America.
Much of Rutkowski’s work is taken from ArtStation, a site where many artists upload portfolios online. There are several reasons why Rutkowski’s work was taken over by AI.
First of all, her ethereal and dreamy style looks great. And he also creates a lot of illustrative works and many of his illustrations of him are available online in a high enough quality, so there are plenty of examples to choose from. One of the first image text generators called Disco Diffusion offers Rutkowski as an example suggestion.
Rutkowski also added alternative English text when uploading his work online. These image descriptions are useful for visually impaired people using screen reading software and also help search engines rank images. This also makes them easy to grasp and the AI model knows which images are relevant to the cue.
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