I went to the PUBLIC ART and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP at the Albuquerque Museum on November 19th, 2024. The guest speaker was an attorney -- Sarah Conley Odenkirk -- who spoke mostly on the legal issues, and not how to generate AI ART:
Opening lecture image
Other websites that she brought up:
Personally I don't feel like AI is an imminent threat to artists yet. It can generate some intriguing images, and artists should take advantage of the tools we have in our times:
However most of the current AI ART images are rather dry and limited. I feel like they are shoehorning all the generations into some kind of Barbie archetype, more and more, at the expense of more creative visions.
Moreover AI can't generate good fake images of my drawings (no matter how hard I try to get AI to do so).
Finally I feel like AI ART innovations have slowed down recently -- unlike a year ago (note also the software programs)-- and Matt Wolfe agrees. I follow his YouTube channel for new AI ART tools, and am not finding much new to play with recently. Currently I'm more keen on 3D AI ART innovations rather than the recent AI ART VIDEO progress.
She also pointed out that Midjourney has the right to use any image you generate, as well as any images you upload, to do what they want with it...
... so is there any way to sue Midjourney if they DON'T -- "reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Content you input into the Services, as well as the Assets produced by You through the service." The way I read their TOS is that Midjourney has the OBLIGATION to promote my bad art and bad AI ART generations.
Earlier Adobe changed their Terms of Service, and it was even worse than Midjourney's. From my June 10, 2024 blog post
- Adobe changed their terms of service to own everything you make with Photoshop
- (YouTube): Adobe roofies all of their customers
"Hogarth was a pioneer in copyright for artists as well. His work was so heavily plagiarized that he lobbied for the legal protection of engravings. As a result, the Copyright Act passed by Parliament in 1735 is known as the Hogarth Act."
