The goal of this post is to discuss whenever "AI art" is good, bad, or irrelevant to graphic novels.
I have been playing around with AI image creation tools since last year. Midjourney first, then Dalle, and most recently Stable Diffusion.
All images in this post I "created" using Moebius based text prompts today. The quotation marks are intended as the only thing I have created are text prompts. Whenever the AI created these images is highly debatable. If I feed an AI model ten thousand panels of Moebius art and the AI returns one panel based on them, then who is the creator?
Feel free to discuss the legality (copyright) of this technology, who should get the royalties or the credit. Or to discuss whenever it is ethical, but what is really interesting to me is to determine if this technology is good, bad or irrelevant for us, graphic novels readers.
I know that a true connoisseur is likely to differentiate within the below images and the true work from Moebius, but for how long? We are at the verge of reaching a point where this differentiation will be impossible. Moebius passed away in 2012, so this differentiation may be possible with external tools, but what about living artists? Furthermore, what if a living artist publishes a book using AI generated art based on his own work. Is that acceptable? Should the artist disclose the AI use to the public? All that will probably come with regulation, or not, who knows.
I prefer human-made art before computer-made art, especially when it comes to graphic novels. This despite knowing that some of the artists that I follow already use CGI to a greater or lesser extent, that is fine... But AI generated art is in another level, something that I do not want to welcome with open arms. Having said that, is the same as with any other technology, like it or not, it is here to stay.
So what is your opinion on this matter?
P.S: I believe I am not breaking any community rule, but if I am then please delete this post.
I believe in the monkey selfie ruling. When a monkey takes a selfie, it doesn't matter if it was using a camera brought to it by a professional photographer. The photographer cannot claim copyright on it, and until it gets better lawyers, neither can the monkey.
If something is generated by AI, no copyright should be puttable on it.
As for whether companies should be able to take somebody else's data and put a fee on remixing it, I don't think there is a legal allowance for that, and if there is, the companies that did it were using some big, blatant loopholes. I don't know what to do about them, but OpenAI OpenA-lied about their intent
PS I love Morbius' art