Good morning Starlit Avenue! We're here with a community poll regarding a topic that ha recently become pretty active in our community: AI-generated art.
This is art that, rather than being drawn from scratch by a human artist, is created using an algorithmic program. The backend computing aspects of that process are honestly too complicated to get into in this post. But if you've ever used a web application like ArtBreeder or NovelAI, that's a good example of exactly what I'm talking about.
There's some controversy surrounding the idea of AI-generated art right now: ranging from concerns of how it affects the livilihood of human artists to the ways in which these programs utilize existing art without the permission of the artists whose work they train the AI with. It's a hotbed of philosophical, legal, and ethical topics.
As it stands, some members of our community have begun using this art with the intention of making visual representations of their characters. Some other members have expressed concerns with the use of AI-generated art for various reasons. Right now, what we want is to establish how the community broadly wants to handle this type of art.
You can find a quick two question poll HERE. I'll collect data over the next few days and, if we have interesting points of discussion, I'll open those up to a round table with the community. In the meantime, you'll find that I've created a new channel in the Discord server called #ai-art. Please sequester any AI-generated art and discussion of such there until we have a more solid handle on what the community wants.
This is art that, rather than being drawn from scratch by a human artist, is created using an algorithmic program. The backend computing aspects of that process are honestly too complicated to get into in this post. But if you've ever used a web application like ArtBreeder or NovelAI, that's a good example of exactly what I'm talking about.
There's some controversy surrounding the idea of AI-generated art right now: ranging from concerns of how it affects the livilihood of human artists to the ways in which these programs utilize existing art without the permission of the artists whose work they train the AI with. It's a hotbed of philosophical, legal, and ethical topics.
As it stands, some members of our community have begun using this art with the intention of making visual representations of their characters. Some other members have expressed concerns with the use of AI-generated art for various reasons. Right now, what we want is to establish how the community broadly wants to handle this type of art.
You can find a quick two question poll HERE. I'll collect data over the next few days and, if we have interesting points of discussion, I'll open those up to a round table with the community. In the meantime, you'll find that I've created a new channel in the Discord server called #ai-art. Please sequester any AI-generated art and discussion of such there until we have a more solid handle on what the community wants.
