I brought AI art to a potluck and it divided the room

It made me see how AI art fairness feels personal.

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Remember that AI art tools use artists' work without consent. That makes the fairness debate about more than personal feelings. Your potluck story shows how real this problem is.

elliot6971mo ago

I saw a talk online where a programmer admitted they used a huge dataset of art from sites like DeviantArt without telling anyone, @annajenkins. He said it was 'public data' but that feels wrong when artists rely on those sites for their living. It's not just about feelings, it's like taking someone's work from a gallery without paying. Makes the whole potluck story hit home even more.

flores.lisa1mo ago

Reading that just boils my blood. It's exactly like taking work from a gallery without paying. My friend is a digital artist, and she found her art used in a dataset without anyone asking her. She relies on commissions, and this feels like stealing her chance to make a living. Calling it 'public data' is a weak excuse that hides the real harm. That potluck story really shows how taking without asking hurts the whole community.

shane_park929d ago

Yeah, and that's the thing @elliot697, it's not even really like a gallery. A gallery chooses what to show and sells it. This is more like someone took a picture of every single painting in every museum and studio without asking, then used them all to make new ones. The artists never agreed to be part of that machine. Calling it public data makes it sound like free rocks on the ground, not someone's life work they posted online hoping to get seen.