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Concerns are rising within creative industries regarding teh use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate artistic content,specifically in response to instances where professional work appears to be replicated by AI tools without consideration for the cost or time involved in original creation.
The debate centers on whether the value of human artistic labor is being undermined by readily available AI-generated alternatives. A key point of contention is whether those commissioning or utilizing AI-generated work are factoring in the equivalent cost of hiring a series cartoonist or other professional creator, or accounting for the extended time a human artist would require to complete the same task. The author suggests this is not happening.
The author expresses a desire to foster discussion on this issue across various platforms, highlighting a perceived devaluation of professional creative work in an era where anyone can produce visual content using AI tools like ChatGPT. The accessibility of these tools, allowing individuals of all ages to quickly generate images and text, is seen as contributing to a flood of content that diminishes the perceived value of skilled artistry.
A central argument is that the use of AI in this manner is unethical, characterized as “ugly” and “Schtøggt” (a Norwegian intensifier of “ugly”). The author contends that the foundation of these AI models rests on the large-scale, unauthorized use of existing creative works – a “cultural theft of the century.”
The author emphasizes the comprehensive nature of the data scraping used to train these AI models, stating that “the whole internet” was utilized. This raises notable copyright and intellectual property concerns, as artists and creators were not consulted or compensated for the use of their work in developing these technologies.
And it is still not just ugly, but Schtøggt.
