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Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back - Decrypt (decrypt.co)

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Greg Rutkowski, a digital artist known for his surreal style, opposes AI art but his name and style have been frequently used by AI art generators without his consent. In response, Stable Diffusion removed his work from their dataset in version 2.0. However, the community has now created a tool to emulate Rutkowski's style against his wishes using a LoRA model. While some argue this is unethical, others justify it since Rutkowski's art has already been widely used in Stable Diffusion 1.5. The debate highlights the blurry line between innovation and infringement in the emerging field of AI art.

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (60 children)

His art was not "stolen." That's not an accurate word to describe this process with.

It's not so much that "it was done before so it's fine now" as "it's a well-understood part of many peoples' workflows" that can be used to justify it. As well as the view that there was nothing wrong with doing it the first time, so what's wrong with doing it a second time?

[–] Zeus@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (22 children)

pirating photoshop is a well-understood part of many peoples' workflows. that doesn't make it legal or condoned by adobe

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I don't know what this has to do with anything. Nothing was "pirated", either.

[–] Backspacecentury@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Was he paid for his art to be included?

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