Note: I’m not going to refer to procedurally generated images as “AI art” because by definition, art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination.” I will instead refer to it as PGIs.
1. It’s threatening their livelihood. Artists also have bills to pay.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/16/ai-job-losses-are-rising-but-the-numbers-dont-tell-the-full-story.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/lost-job-chatgpt-made-me-obsolete-copywriter-2023-7
2. Every piece of art a human artist makes is copyright (mostly owned by the artist and sometimes a publisher that made a contract with the artist to acquire that copyright).
The AI corporations used those artworks without compensating or acquiring permission from the copyright holders (again, usually the artists). This is unethical and probably illegal (we’re figuring that out presently).
https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter
https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-copyrighted-material-parliament
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/07/openai-warns-copyright-crackdown-could-doom-chatgpt/
More Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/visual-artists-fight-back-against-artificial-intelligence-companies-for-repurposing-their-work
https://bnnbreaking.com/world/us/artists-rally-for-rights-the-legal-battle-over-ai-generated-artworks
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/01/how-we-should-regulate-ai-is-the-trillion-dollar-question
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools/ai-rony-midjourney-bans-stability-ai-employees-from-using-its-service-in-fear-they-are-scraping-its-data-238995.html
3. The proliferation of AI is making it hard to tell what is real and what is fake, a danger that contributes to conspiracy, scams and medical errors.
sources: https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/shoppers-think-click-ai-generated-image-scams-infiltrate-web
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/02/14/the-dark-alliance-addressing-the-rise-of-ai-financial-frauds-and-cyber-scams/
https://marinaamaral.substack.com/p/ai-is-creating-fake-historical-photos
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817
4. It’s Highly Polluting
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/
5. Privacy and Security Concerns
Medical records in ‘training’ data set (Ars Technica and biometricupdate.com)
A group of researchers created a first-generation AI worm that can steal data, spread malware, spam others via an email client, and spread through multiple systems. This worm was developed and successfully functions in test environments using popular LLMs.
read the paper: https://sites.google.com/view/compromptmized
5.5 Other Concerns
MDPI Journal article: AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking by Michael Gerlich. Center for Strategic Corporate Foresight and Sustainability, SBS Swiss Business School, 8302 Kloten-Zurich, Switzerland LINK: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6
It’s not just independent artists who are trying to take action against PGIs.
Getty Images is suing Stability AI, creators of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, over alleged copyright violation.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit
AI is flooding the book market with garbage… according to The Guardian and PCmag…
https://www.vox.com/culture/24128560/amazon-trash-ebooks-mikkelsen-twins-ai-publishing-academy-scam
…and following the information in AI generated instructional books could literally kill you (link: the Guardian)
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