History MediaNotes / AIGeneratedArtwork

* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY3'': As Frederik Larson notes in [[https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kQKR9d a post to ArtStation]], AI was used to produce the paintings seen in Surphaze Art Gallery, the setting of the heist ''Under The Surphaze''.

* A.I. artwork programs utilize thousands, if not tens of thousands of artists' works in their machine-learning processes. This has brought up various [[FantasticLegalWeirdness legal and ethical issues]], since many of these artists have not consented to the usage of their artwork in such programs, nor are they compensated for the usage of their artwork. Creator/{{Valve}} has put an official ban on any game that uses AI assets citing the risks of misuesed copyrighted material as a reason.

* The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obY4c9aqUqs Ich weiß es nicht]]" by Lindemann (a German/Swedish industrial metal supergroup, consisting of Till Lindemann of Music/Rammstein and Peter Tägtgren of PAIN, Music/Hypocrisy and Music/Bloodbath) off of the ''F & M'' album, uses the majority of A.I.-generated visuals.

* '''General Adversarial Networks ([=GANs=])''': Programs which produce "new" images with the use of a two-part system. [=GANs=] are split into a "generator" and a "discriminator"; the generator attempts to create patterns based on input data (in this case, other artwork), while the discriminator discards the generator's data if it is deemed unoriginal or implausible.

* The ''Franchise/D4DJ'' multimedia franchise (including its video game arm, ''VideoGame/D4DJGroovyMix'') has an in-universe example in [[spoiler:Lumina Ichihoshi, an A.I. VirtualIdol who produces music and streams by herself.]]

* The ''Franchise/D4DJ'' multimedia franchise (including its video game arm, ''VideoGame/D4DJGrooxyMix'') has an in-universe example in [[spoiler:Lumina Ichihoshi, an A.I. VirtualIdol who produces music and streams by herself.]]

Popular examples of A.I.-generated artwork programs include DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, [=DeepDream=], and WOMBO.

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* A.I. artwork programs utilize thousands, if not tens of thousands of artists' works in their machine-learning processes. This has brought up various [[FantasticLegalWeirdness legal and ethical issues]], since many of these artists have not consented to the usage of their artwork in such programs, nor are they compensated for the usage of their artwork. Creator/{{Valve}} has put an official ban on any game that uses AI assets citing the risks of copyrighted material as a reason.

[[caption-width-right:350:A piece of A.I.-generated artwork titled ''Théâtre d'Opéra Spatial'', which controversially won a prize at the 2022 Colorado State Fair.]]

* A.I. artwork programs utilize thousands, if not tens of thousands of artists' works in their machine-learning processes. This has brought up various [[FantasticLegalWeirdness legal and ethical issues]], since many of these artists have not consented to the usage of their artwork in such programs, nor are they compensated for the usage of their artwork.
* The results of A.I. programs are probably uncopyrightable: the US Copyright Act stipulates that only a human creator can hold a copyright, and [[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/us-copyright-office-withdraws-copyright-for-ai-generated-comic-artwork/ in 2023, the US Copyright Office stripped copyright protection from the A.I.-generated images]] used in the comic book ''ComicBook/ZaryaOfTheDawn'' for that reason (though the human-written script remains protected).

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook ''Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants'' was criticized by fans after one of its artists used A.I. to assist with several of the pieces he contributed to the book. D&D's parent company, Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast, denied knowing that A.I. was used for the book's art and said they would redo the artwork submitted and update their guidelines to prevent it from happening in the future.

--> '''Raiden:''' Snake! Snake! Wake up! It's an emergency! [[BaitAndSwitch Rose knows about the deepfakes!]] Snake! SNAKE! I guess he stayed up late AI-catfishing again...

A number of prominent creators, including Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, Creator/GuillermoDelToro, and Creator/MikeMignola, have protested against the usage of A.I. generated artwork. The integration of A.I.-generation into art websites and programs, such as [=ArtStation=], Website/DeviantArt, and Website/{{Pixiv}}, has sparked heavy protest among online art communities. This has led to some websites, such as Inkblot, Furaffinity, and Website/{{Newgrounds}}, preemptively banning the usage of A.I. art on their platforms. Companies such as [=ClipStudioPaint=] have withdrawn their plans to include A.I.-integrated tools after backlash by many of their users.

* CYBERGEM's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY "Raiden Warned About AI Censorship"]] video is a dialogue between several major characters of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', based on an endgame conversation in the original ''[=MGS2=]'' in which [[spoiler:GW, an AI created by the Patriots, declares its intent to control information flow to create the global narrative it wants]], but instead posits the conspiracy theory that generative A.I. is actually a military weapon used to spread misinformation in a similar way. The A.I. that Raiden talks to then goes on about how this kind of A.I. was leaked to the public on purpose with the intent of making people paranoid about whether what they see on the Internet or even in real life is real or not, so that the U.S. government can present their "solution": Requiring each human user to be verified as a human at all times and having anything they output be cryptographically signed with their credentials in the event that whatever they output is deemed problematic, thus putting an end to online anonymity once and for all. Ironically, as noted in the video description, the vocalizations were made with a voice-cloning AI in order to get the point across that one can't trust anything they see online to be human-made content as opposed to an A.I.-generated construct.

* CYBERGEM's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY "Raiden Warned About AI Censorship"]] video is a dialogue between several major characters of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', based on an endgame conversation in the original ''[=MGS2=]'' in which [[spoiler:GW, an AI created by the Patriots, declares its intent to control information flow to create the global narrative it wants]], but instead posits the conspiracy theory that generative A.I. is actually a military weapon used to spread misinformation in a similar way. The A.I. that Raiden talks to then goes on about how this kind of A.I. was leaked to the public on purpose with the intent of making people paranoid about whether what they see on the Internet or even in real life is real or not, so that the U.S. government can present their "solution": Requiring each human user to be verified as a human at all times and having anything they output be cryptographically signed with their credentials in the event that whatever they output is deemed problematic. Ironically, as noted in the video description, the vocalizations were made with a voice-cloning AI in order to get the point across that one can't trust anything they see online to be human-made content as opposed to an A.I.-generated construct.

* CYBERGEM's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY "Raiden Warned About AI Censorship"]] video is a dialogue between several major characters of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', based on an endgame conversation in the original ''[=MGS2=]'' in which [[spoiler:GW, an AI created by the Patriots, declares its intent to control information flow to create the global narrative it wants]], but instead posits the conspiracy theory that generative A.I. is actually a military weapon used to spread misinformation in a similar way. The A.I. that Raiden talks to then goes on about how this kind of A.I. was leaked to the public on purpose with the intent of making people paranoid about whether what they see on the Internet or even in real life is real or not, so that the U.S. government can present their "solution": Requiring each human user to be verified as a human at all times and having anything they output be cryptographically signed with their credentials in the event that whatever they output is deemed problematic. Ironically, as noted in the video description, the dialogue was made with a voice-cloning AI in order to get the point across that one can't trust anything they see online to be human-made content as opposed to an A.I.-generated construct.

* CYBERGEM's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY "Raiden Warned About AI Censorship"]] video is a dialogue between several major characters of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', based on an endgame conversation in the original ''[=MGS2=]'' in which [[spoiler:GW, an AI created by the Patriots, declares its intent to control information flow to create the global narrative it wants]], but instead posits the conspiracy theory that generative A.I. is actually a military weapon used to spread misinformation in a similar way. The A.I. that Raiden talks to then goes on about how this kind of A.I. was leaked to the public on purpose with the intent of making people paranoid about whether what they see on the Internet or even in real life is real or not, so that the U.S. government can present their "solution": Requiring each human user to be verified as a human at all times and having anything they output be cryptographically signed with their credentials in the event that whatever they output is deemed problematic. Ironically, the dialogue was made with a voice-cloning AI in order to get the point across that one can't trust anything they see online to be human-made content as opposed to an A.I.-generated construct.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook ''Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants'' was criticized by fans after one of its artists used AI to assist with several of the pieces he contributed to the book. D&D's parent company, Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast, denied knowing AI was used for the book's art and said they would redo the artwork submitted and update their guidelines to prevent it from happening in the future.

* DJ "WebVideo/LegalEagle" Stone dissects some of the legal issues around A.I.-generated images in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G08hY8dSrUY "A.I. Versus The Law"]] and to a lesser extent in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6aeL83z_9Y "NFTs Are Legally Problematic"]]. Besides the currently unresolved legality of scraping image databases for the basis of the machine learning networks, [[UsefulNotes/TheCommonLaw US common law]] states that only humans can hold a copyright: Stone cites the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute the "monkey selfie" case]], where PETA argued unsuccessfully that a macaque who stole a photographer's camera and accidentally snapped a selfie deserved copyright to the image. It's therefore possible that any A.I.-generated image automatically enters the public domain.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook ''Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants'' was criticized by fans after one of its artists used AI to assist with several of the pieces he contributed to the book. D&D's parent company, Wizards of the Coast, denied knowing AI was used for the book's art and said it would redo the artwork submitted and update its guidelines to prevent it from happening in the future.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook ''Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants'' was criticized by fans after one of its artists used AI to assist with several of the pieces he contributed to the book. D&D's parent company, Wizards of the Coast, denied knowing AI was used for the book's art, and said it would update its guidelines to prevent it from happening in the future.

* The artistic merit of A.I.-generated art, and its status as original creative work, [[CreativeSterility has often been called into question]], as the "original" pieces generated by an algorithm are only able to be developed due to imitation of human artists' work. [[note]]An artist can create a {{Pastiche}} of another artist's style, but inherently contributes their own quirks and decisions to the process, affecting everything from line shapes to subject matter. Purely seeking to imitate without contribution, meanwhile, is at best derivative and at worst an act of forgery.[[/note]] In LaymansTerms, when humans witness the works of other humans, they are capable of evolving them meaningfully -- {{Paintings}} for example have spanned the gamut of styles from classical to {{impressionis|m}}t to cubist to abstract -- but A.I. generators are only capable of reproducing what they've already seen, and training A.I. generators with A.I. generated art won't cause newly-developed art to diverge from old art, and in fact [[https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/ it'll do the opposite.]]

* The artistic merit of A.I.-generated art, and its status as original creative work, [[CreativeSterility has often been called into question]], as the "original" pieces generated by an algorithm are only able to be developed due to imitation of human artists' work. [[note]]An artist can create a {{Pastiche}} of another artist's style, but inherently contributes their own quirks and decisions to the process, affecting everything from line shapes to subject matter. Purely seeking to imitate without contribution, meanwhile, is at best derivative and at worst an act of forgery.[[/note]]