Can AI supercharge creativity without stealing from artists?

From the onset of generative AI's surge in popularity, one application that is fun and easy to use has been the AI text-to-media generators. Everyone from business professionals to the average person can partake in the fun experience of creating anything they envision -- from an image to a video -- with a quick text prompt and the touch of a button. Also: 10 key reasons AI went mainstream overnight - and what happens next However, behind what may seem like a harmless experience is a whole lot of implications for artists. The issue Many of the most popular AI media generators on the market, including the one that started the AI text-to-image generator craze, OpenAI's DALL-E 2, trained their models by scraping the entire internet -- including all of the original work from artists -- without asking for their explicit permission. The implications here are that artists' bodies of work, including photographs, paintings, poems, art, books, and songs, can be easily replicated without thei ... Read full article.