Unless artists are given the opportunity to remove their work from a model, or negotiate their own price either before or after training, it sure feels like theft to me. A human artist listening to a song and being inspired by it and a model permanently training on it are not the same, ethically speaking.
I doubt anyone really cares about niche uses of AI, like in editing or for generating a story board. Even though its actually already very useful there. Where people get upset, and rightfully so, is when AI is used to generate the majority of a film, ad, etc. Mostly because it sucks. It has an uncanny valley, like CGI, that people can pick up on. Models will get better sure but I'd bet money we'll just get better at spotting it.
I'm glad I read this piece, thanks for writing it.
Seems worth noting: the Princess Mononoke "trailer" that you link to really is offensively bad! It steals the audio from the beautiful hand-drawn animated film and then just slaps some gross derivative CGI on top. Not a single beautiful shot. Not a "live action" anything!
This touches a nerve for me because I just showed this movie to my children recently and it's so full of life and its complexity--it's about the remains of beauty and soulfulness in a disenchanted world. To turn this movie, in particular, into a vessel for slop, and act like you've done the world a service, really is rotten. OF COURSE he doesn't deserve any threats of violence against him, but honestly it's not a good thing that he put it back up and I'd be glad to hear if he gets sued.
Unless artists are given the opportunity to remove their work from a model, or negotiate their own price either before or after training, it sure feels like theft to me. A human artist listening to a song and being inspired by it and a model permanently training on it are not the same, ethically speaking.
I'm totally uninterested in AI-generated film/TV content. I don't think that I'm alone in feeling that way.
I doubt anyone really cares about niche uses of AI, like in editing or for generating a story board. Even though its actually already very useful there. Where people get upset, and rightfully so, is when AI is used to generate the majority of a film, ad, etc. Mostly because it sucks. It has an uncanny valley, like CGI, that people can pick up on. Models will get better sure but I'd bet money we'll just get better at spotting it.
I'm glad I read this piece, thanks for writing it.
Seems worth noting: the Princess Mononoke "trailer" that you link to really is offensively bad! It steals the audio from the beautiful hand-drawn animated film and then just slaps some gross derivative CGI on top. Not a single beautiful shot. Not a "live action" anything!
This touches a nerve for me because I just showed this movie to my children recently and it's so full of life and its complexity--it's about the remains of beauty and soulfulness in a disenchanted world. To turn this movie, in particular, into a vessel for slop, and act like you've done the world a service, really is rotten. OF COURSE he doesn't deserve any threats of violence against him, but honestly it's not a good thing that he put it back up and I'd be glad to hear if he gets sued.