Hey artists—thought you might want to know that the only reason you think you should be paid for your work is because you were tricked by evil media companies into believing that your consent matters. Luckily, the Chamber of Progress (Google, Meta, Amazon et al) has your back. 🤯

I was calling it this whole damn time!!

Adobe Firefly is not, and has NEVER been an 'ethical' AI generator. I spoke to multiple news vendors about this!!

AdobeStock contributors like myself saw right through the PR spin from the beginning. 100% predatory.

So apparently the whole debacle was a lot worse than I originally thought.

2/3 It’s silly that all of it stems from the org freaking out about the mild transparency bill proposed by Adam Schiff. Normally I’d ignore, but these are the orgs present in almost every government meetings and regulatory spaces.

Orgs like these are who artists are up against

The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act introduced by Adam Schiff is great, but there's one change it would be great to see: require gen AI companies to disclose *all* their training data, not just copyrighted works.

The main reason would be to ensure synthetic data is…

This is UTTERLY disappointing, ignorant and weak. Instead of fighting against data abuse, and copyright infringement the Canadian gov wants to fall back on the classic 'retraining' talking point. We all know retraining NEVER works. This is the laziest approach Justin Trudeau

This entire framing is a bait & switch—few artists feel threatened by generative AI due to its ability to create quality work. They're threatened because too many clients don't care about the quality of the output, and AI will erode rates for creative work across the board.

Shame you on GOBELINS Paris for even thinking about using/teaching GenAi. Why would anyone want to go to school to learn how to steal and plunder from artists, Schools are being lobbied by big tech, but ffs, stand up for what you're known for.

Update on our study on the detectability of generative AI images. Thank you again to the 4000+ artists who responded to our survey. The study capturing your inputs and efforts was peer reviewed and accepted for publication at ACM CCS (3rd of the big3 in security), October 2024.