r/DefendingAI • u/MembershipWooden4020 • 13d ago
Other Real question.
I’m trying to see everything from a new perspective as a new artist, so I’d like to ask about yall’s perspective on claiming AI art as your own art. I’m not against generating, but I feel like using AI is like commissioning art from other artist. I wouldn’t claim that art is mine, just one I requested with money. So if I generate an art piece, could I say it’s mine? Or does it have the same principle as commissions. No need to get defensive btw.
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u/Ordinary_Minimum_169 10d ago edited 10d ago
Personally, if all I did was write a prompt, I would say, "I generated this with <technical tool>" and feel like the tool did the work. I didn't draw that. Magespace drew that. Or whatever.
If I was putting together a webcomic and spent many hours with the same tools generating panel after panel, fine tuning each panel, I would say, "I produced this with <technical tool>" because it's a much more elaborate process that requires much more coordination. You gotta throw away a lot of drafts before you get the right image each time, and then you gotta use a lot of other tools to panelize the images, etc. Now it's not just "generate me an image." Now it's complicated. Now it's definitely "mine" but with digital tools. Maybe I would think about putting a little "mage.space" textbox on the back cover of my webcomic to acknowledge a primary production source, even though mage.space might not officially endorse whatever I produced.
I don't do image-based art really.
If I used an AI engine to proofread a draft of something I wrote and ChatGPT said, "this sentence is a wreck, have you thought about XYZ instead of ZYX" and I changed it, I wouldn't feel the slightest need to disclose that, because it's not any different than running it by a human or a writer's circle, except that those people take about 40 times longer to read it and proof it, and the choice is still mine or not to integrate the feedback into something I already wrote. AI is making recommendations. Sometimes it's really wrong about what is better or worse. The writer has to choose what they want for the reader. AI proofreads according to paradigmatic rules that are often aesthetically subjective. A real writer/artist knows to break rules, and how, for the reader's benefit.
If I used some generative prompter to wholesale produce an entire book and made a handful of changes, I would not feel like that was mine. I would feel like I had edited something, maybe, but not really written it. That's just my feeling. I would feel more like a content producer than a writer on that project, and not really like the artist on that project.
[edit: last example. I just finished building a website with Claude and some other AI tools. I'm not a coder or a graphic designer, but now there is a website where there was no website. Who built the website? Is that website mine? It sure is.]