A prominent artist suing two artificial intelligence companies told Fox News that AI-generated images that mimic the artist’s style are a form of identity theft and compete with the creatives used to train the models.
artificial intelligence platform Companies like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion use text and images from the internet and other sources to train their machines to create images for their consumers. Karla Ortiz, a San Francisco-based artist and illustrator who claims her work was used to train the technology, filed a lawsuit in January against the companies, accusing them of copyright and copyright infringement. Publicity Rights.
“Someone was able to copy my work because the company allowed them to do it,” Ortiz told Fox News. “It feels like some kind of industrial-grade identity theft.”
“It feels like someone is taking everything you’ve worked so hard for and allowing other people to do whatever they want for their own benefit,” she said.
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Ortiz said she could push Midjourney and Stable Diffusion to create images “in the style of Karla Ortiz” before she filed a lawsuit, and the AI platform would follow suit.
Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, Motions filed in April Ortiz’s case was dismissed, claiming that the artist had failed to “identify an allegedly infringing output image, let alone an image that was substantially similar to any of their copyrighted works.” Midjourney filed a similar claim on the same day motion.
Artists use Midjourney to create AI-generated characters. (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)
“In order for these models to generate the images you see today, or anything for that matter, they have to be trained on a lot of data first, which includes images and text,” Ortiz told Fox News. “That data, it includes everything.”
“It includes people’s medical records, it includes people’s businesses, their homes, and in some cases people’s likenesses, and in our case, almost all of my entire artwork, especially my fine art,” O’Neill said. Ultis continued.
Other artists have similar Ways to vet tech companies The potential of the data used to train their models and leverage the data in creating machine learning. Still, artists, including musicians, illustrators and writers, cannot copyright their style, a lawyer told Fox News last month.
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After she filed the lawsuit, Ortiz said Midjourney and Stable Diffusion stopped using data extracted from her artwork to create images.
But her concerns persist.
“It generates images that look like yours, and maybe even compete in your own market, using your own name and your own work,” Ortiz said. “You’re competing against a digital copy of yourself, against a machine that doesn’t sleep, doesn’t rest, doesn’t take money.”
Ortiz claims that Midjourney and Stable Diffusion used artists’ work to train their AI art generators. (Fox Digital News/Jon Michael Lasch)
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Midjourney generates raw AI-generated images based on textual cues from users. (Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images)
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“It’s not just painters, illustrators, voice actors and musicians,” Ortiz told Fox News. “This applies to just about every white-collar job you can imagine.”
“and Again, this is all done with our data,” she said. “It’s all done with our work.
Neither Midjourney nor Stability AI responded to requests for comment.
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