Soon we will live in the times when AI engines create new art on the basis of previous AI works.
Well... :) I'm not an expert on this, but according to research it's apparently possible that at some point AI will start "eating its own tail":
popularmechanics.com/technology/a44675279/ai-content-model-collapse/
"Another recent study, similarly posted to the pre-print arXiv server, studied AI image generators
trained on other AI art. By the AI's third attempt to create a bird or flower with only a steady diet of AI data, the results came back blurry and unrecognizable."
So, it looks like AI needs to continuously steal human art in order to work properly.
You can`t stop it, it is unavoidable. Fighting it as useless as trying to teach a penguin to fly. :):):)
Cloning humans was banned by law in many countries because it was raising ethical issues. So this kind of "progress" could be stopped. The AI companies could also be banned by law from scrapping copyrighted artworks and forced to use only open source art and photos and art and photos that author's would contribute out of their own will (for money, for example - at least they would be compensated).
They are imitating the style. It isn`t stealing.
No... I don't know how to explain this to you... Do you know what collage is? You know, when you take pieces of different photos or different artworks and put them together? That is, to simply put, how art generators work. They don't "imitate", they use actual art and photos. AI generators don't even know what is imitating. They don't know or understand anything, because this not real AI. They don't even know that humans have five fingers and not six or four lol Even kids know how many fingers people have :)
Show us two pics for comparison - artist`s original creation and its AI stolen one.
I've seen such an example. I'll post it when I find it, but I'll have to do some digging.
Btw, there have been reports about AI artworks containing signatures of existing artists and watermarks of photo stock sites.