While I am quite excited about the Walton Goggins-infused Amazon Fallout series, the show debuted some promo art for the project ahead of official stills or footage and…it appears to be AI generated.
My guess is that AI’s first big victim for graphic design will be stock art. Previously, crap like that background asset would just be stock purchased from Getty or Adobe stock. Now it can be generated.
I’m already starting to use it instead of paying for bullshit licenses.
I’ve been using AI for school and work, as God intended: give it the raw, have it do the grunt organization work, and then proofread to correct anything.
There is very little to say that hasn’t been said. For an example of our limitations as humans, there’s only 50ish unique plot lines in the English language. To expect each person to be completely original is asinine.
It’s a tool, one of many in my toolbox. People who are just flat against any and all AI or LLMs are behind the curve.
For an example of our limitations as humans, there’s only 50ish unique plot lines in the English language.
How would the unique plotlines be determined by the language they’re told in? Why would the amount of plotlines be based on human cognitive capabilities? None of this makes sense.
Either way, “unique plotline” doesn’t mean anything, from the perspective of literary or narrative studies. There’s no universal, objective way to dissect narratives, and they cannot be boiled down to a distinct number of basic models. There have been attempts to get to the most fundamental narrative model (Greimas, Campbell), but they’re far from widely accepted.
People who are just flat against any and all AI or LLMs are behind the curve.
Art is, by itself, not something that has “the curve”. If you’re doing something with very practical goals and need hyperproduction, sure, but art is not necessarily made or consumed with such a logic.
Pretty much.
People very frequently complain about AI taking the jobs of artists. But if the money was never actually going to be put on the table for artists to claim, I really don’t think that was going to help much.
That doesn’t mean I hate artists what do, absolutely not. It’s just that artists are people and people are limited in how much they can do at any single time.
For the past couple of months. I’ve currently been waiting on multiple artists to finish up their commission queue. And one of which I’m worried I’ll have to turn away because of a variety of life changes in my life that’s led me to losing my job and me having reduced income.
As of right now, the costs of generating a picture with a tool like Stable Diffusion or DALL-E has been pretty low, the former even being free if you have the right hardware. And these systems manage to be almost always available, as well as being capable of working in a matter of seconds.
Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that these tools are only good at painting the bigger picture. They have a tendency to choke on the smaller details. And I would personally rather wait for an actual person to be available to work on something original that’s also capable of filling a niche that AI models have yet to be trained on.
This entirely disregards the fact that the training of these models was done on human artists’ work without consent or renumeration. As it is, it is not “AI”, It is just a glorified plagiarism machine. Not to say it isn’t impressive, but it has already stolen work already done by artists and further stealing upcoming work by mashing together older works.
There’s ways to do it ethically by training on artwork with permission kind of like how Adobe is doing it, but that isn’t going to have as wide of a reach as the other free ones.
Graphic designers aren’t the first. Automation ended a lot of jobs for decades. Ai is just a form of automation.
The fun part here though is they dont have copyright on that art. If any of the “stock AI footage” becomes iconic, its public domain.
Dicey spot for a studio to be in, but it does save some bucks, so they are plowing ahead.
You should consult with a lawyer first. The amount of misinformation circulating on the Internet about how AI art is all public domain is enormous. That recent court case (Thaler v. Perlmutter) that made the rounds just recently, for example, does not say what most people seemed to be eagerly assuming it said.
im also someone who has been misinformed on the AI art copyright status. could you explain how it actually works or link to a resource that does? i tried searching around for a bit but couldn’t find a clear consensus on it.
Neither do they have copyright of the stock art they used to purchase. The complete piece, however, including pip boy, is not AI generated. Someone put this together, put effort into it, which easily qualifies it for copyright protection, even if the background is AI generated instead of bought stock art.
If you’re talking about that recent legal case, look again. The artist made the claim that the AI was the sole author, but that he should own the IP. I think the vast majority of people would claim that, in it’s current state, the AI is a digital tool an author uses to make art. The recent ruling just reconfirm that A machines aren’t people, and B you can’t just own another author’s work.
They will be generating it themselves soon enough. I contributed some stock photos in the past. They recently sent me info about their new contribution pipeline, for content that may not pass the usual quality threshold, but will help train the models. If they do it right, who knows, maybe they can get better results worth paying for.
I don’t even mind the use of AI art in this context, but the fact that they couldn’t be bothered to do a little touch-up speaks a lot to the quality that can be expected from their show.
Their absolute mangling of the Wheel of Time tells me exactly what to expect from this show.
I didn’t even get past 30 min. After seeing what they did to Mat’s family and character I was out.
That means no copyright- woohoo go nuts!
Quoting the U.S. Copyright Office’s own guidance:
In other cases, however, a work containing AI-generated material will also contain sufficient human authorship to support a copyright claim. For example, a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that “the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.” Or an artist may modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection
Don’t go nuts.
This is a viral marketing campaign. I hadn’t heard of the show, now I have. It’s a fuck you to artists and a planned rage bait to get people talking about the show.
I’m a little skeptical that it’s AI generated because a lot of those details could be the result of kitbashing, which is especially common with concept art (here’s an example from Guild Wars 2). It could be they just grabbed a piece of concept art, slapped some promo stuff on top of it and called it a day. That said, considering how much of a hard-on Hollywood has for AI, I wouldn’t put it past them to generate promo art with an AI.
I wasn’t planning on watching it anyway, but I wanted to throw in my two cents.
That’s clearly not kitbashing, when you have a car completely backwards and don’t even bother to fix it. Why would the perspective be mostly correct yet be backwards? You’d have to pull from two sources that had a) the exact same art style, b) have the same perspective, yet c) have one of the cars be backward. And finally d) not give a shit about it to correct it.
