Official AI Policy
No generative artificial intelligence (AI) was used in the making of this work. The artist expressly prohibits any entity from using these images for purposes of training AI technologies to generate imagery, including without limitation technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style as this imagery. The artist reserves all rights to license use of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.
Elaboration on Why I Won’t Use AI in Art
While I can recognize the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) in some specific use cases, I don’t see a place for AI in creative fields. Generative AI is trained by scraping wide swaths of the internet for human-made creations such as visual art, novels, music, etc., and using those works to be able to make something seemingly new with just a simple prompt. That something seemingly new is, at it’s simplest, a conglomerate of stolen art.
I wouldn’t support a person who takes artist’s work and copies it to make something vaguely different but still ultimately stolen, and then claims it as their own and sells it for a profit. In the same way, I cannot support generative AI training on artwork made by hard working people who aren’t credited and aren’t asked if their work can be used for this purpose.
Until we see meaningful regulation and guardrails for truly safe use of these products, and accountability for those enriching themselves through what is essentially a fancy form of plagiarism, I won’t have anything to do with it.
The weird, wild, creative things that humans make are one of the best things about us. Outsourcing that work to a few companies that rake in billions while putting us out of our jobs and hobbies is silly. Not to mention, AI art looks so bad. Humans do it better.