He's known for creating fantasy scenes of dragons and epic battles that fantasy games like D&D use.

It used to be rare to see a similar style on the internet.

He didn't make many of the images you'll see if you search for his name on the social networking site.

One of the most popular names in the field of artificial intelligence has never used it himself.

Artificial intelligence is being used to create original artwork in minutes or seconds after a user types in a few words as directions.

Picasso, Da Vinci, and van Gogh are just a few of the artists whose names have been used to generate 93,000 artificial intelligence images.

"I feel like something's happening that I can't control and I'm based in Poland." The names of other artists are being used to generate artificial intelligence images.

"Dragon Cage" by Greg Rutkowski.
Greg Rutkowski
Images created when Insider typed
Images created when Insider typed "Dragon battle with a man at night in the style of Greg Rutkowski" into Stable Diffusion.
Stable Diffusion

Images that are unique are created by artificial- image generators.

A user can type words into a search bar to find what they want. The results are brand new artworks created using the text in the user's search terms as instructions.

One of the best ways to mimic an artist's style is by using their name.

Some people are pretending to be me. It seems unethical to me.

Simon Stlenhag, an artist and designer based in Sweden, told Insider that although he isn't against artificial intelligence in principle, he does take issue with how some people are using it.

He said that people are selling prints with his name on them. "Rusty robot in a field in the style of Simon Stlenhag, which is a super aggressive way of using this technology."

He's seen people get hostile when they see an artificial intelligence image on social media. He said that people have tagged him and said that they would make him lose his job.

He doesn't believe that artists are in control of the image generators. It's in the hands of people who have been using technology.

The explosion in imitation art means that his style, which has seen him land deals with Sony and Ubisoft, may lose its value.

We work on our portfolio for a long time. Someone can make a lot of images with these generators and sign them with our name.

He said that you don't know what the final output will be of your name being used over the years.

There will be so many artworks in that style that yours won't be interesting anymore, so maybe you and your style won't be included in the industry.

An explosion in imitation

Consumers are using artificial intelligence to generate images.

The DALL-E image generator was opened to the public in September. The program had more than 1.5 million users before it was lifted.

The president of The Graphic Artist Guild said that the ease with which artificial intelligence can copy styles could cause financial hardship for artists.

She said that artists spend a lot of time throughout their career and make a lot of income on being able to license their images and being sought after for their style.

If an artificial intelligence is copying an artist's style and a company can just get an image that's similar to a popular artist's style, that could be an issue.

US copyright law only protects artists against the copying of their work.

Policies are in place to prevent consumers from using their products in certain ways. Images of celebrities or politicians are not allowed.

Users can't create harmful content by using all three programs.

Representatives from DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion were asked if they have any measures in place to prevent images from being created that look like working artists.

Stable Diffusion is working on an opt-out system for artists who don't want their work to be trained with artificial intelligence.

An artist's name is only one component of a diverse set of instructions to the artificial intelligence model that creates a unique style that is different from an individual artist's style, according to a spokesman.

The company will seek artists' perspectives as it expands access to DALL-E, but they did not specify any measures to protect living artists.

Insider didn't get a response from Mid Journey.

AI data training

Neural networks learn from large sets of images and caption. DALL-E's training data is made up of both publicly available sources and images licensed by the company, according to representatives from Open Artificial Intelligence.

The program uses web crawls to gather information, according to representatives.

Living artists shouldn't have been in the databases that train the generators.

I think the technology is a good one. He thinks that artists' names should not have been included in the program.

The generators are "explicitly trained in current working artists" according to the designer and illustrator.

The German artist Mat Dryhurst and the American sound artist Holly Herndon created a website called Have I Been Trained that allows artists to check if their work has been used to train artificial intelligence.

Tools are being worked on to help artists opt out of data-training sets. Stable Diffusion and Midjourney use over five billion images to train their programs.

Other artists feel that they should have been asked for their consent for their images to be used in the training of artificial intelligence generators.

Stlenhag said he would have liked to be asked if he could be included in the training data.

He told Insider that it was like how artists already work.

He doesn't think artificial intelligence is good enough quality to be a threat at the moment.

He doesn't think that Artificial Intelligence is very good. The visuals are not as good as what artists can create.

Copyright laws around AI images are murky

It's not clear if the new artwork generated by the programs will be protected by the law.

One of the biggest issues that we are focused on is theCopyright issues around Artificial Intelligence

The uncertainty around copyright and commercial use has caused some stock image libraries to refuse to carry artificial intelligence-generated artwork.

The human authorship needed to support a copyright claim is not present in works generated by artificial intelligence.

The office wouldn't grant registration to a work that was claimed to have been created by machines.

It's not clear if a person entering search will be counted as a human-ai collaboration.

Representativs believe that images generated by their programs can be copyrighted.

The images are copyrighted when DALL-E is used as a tool that helps human creativity. DALL-E users have the right to distribute the images they create as long as they comply with the policy.

Copyright law has adapted to new technology in the past and will need to do the same with artificial intelligence.

Many artists are excited by the technology.

Giles Christopher, a London-based commercial photographer specializing in food and drink, uses DALL-E and other artificial intelligence to experiment with portraits and create artificial background for some of his commercial shots

He said that he came out with images that were photographs. The photographers argue that the images are too good.

He believes that the genie is out of the bottle when it comes to artificial intelligence.

He said that he has friends in the industry who will storm out of the room if he uses artificial intelligence.

He is keeping an open mind. I am on the fence. Christopher said it was like keeping your enemies close.