Artists Mass Protest Against AI Stealing Their Work By Sharing Anti-AI Logo

They are not happy.

Over the last week, human artists across the internet have risen up to protest the proliferation of image-generating artificial intelligence, particularly on ArtStation, a website which has also been a popular source for generators to scraper from.

The backlash was widespread but disorganized. A red prohibition circle over the letters "ai" is the anti-AI logo. According to Ars Technica, the logo was first shared on December 5, after which it was shared on ArtStation.

By the time Zakuga Art shared a version of the logo on social media, the movement had taken off and ArtStation's home page was dominated by anti-AI sentiment.

"AI creates the 'art' you see on the backs of artists being exploited," reads thetweet, which outlines the grievances of artists. The web is being used for art by an artificial intelligence called "art". The artist didn't give consent to have their work used. We weren't paid.

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You don't have to look for the logo on ArtStation to see it. The logo is featured on all of its pages.

Since they have already been trained on older data sets which are not updated, the images generated by current models will not be affected.

The solidarity and creativity exhibited by artists in their protests is something that the artificial intelligence models that cynically mine their works may never be able to duplicate.

The creators of Stable Diffusion have relented on their policy of using art to train future versions of their generators, thanks to the protests.

It isn't enough to appease artists, but it is a start. Artists are drawing a line in the canvas to let those that unfairly profit off their hard work know that enough is enough.

Artists are angry about the drawing of portraits of people using artificial intelligence.