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Vent: An AI art "style mimic" filter just copied my cousin's whole portfolio
My cousin runs a small print shop in Portland and sells original ink drawings online. Last week a customer bought one of her pieces, ran it through some AI filter that copies drawings, and listed the result on Etsy for $12. We only found out because the new piece had her exact shading mistakes, like the weird left eye tilt she always does. I tried the filter myself with a random sketch and it nailed the texture within seconds. Has anyone else had their actual work stolen this way, or found a way to fight these mimic tools before they spread?
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finleyl3923d ago
The part about the "exact shading mistakes" really got to me. I read an article last week about how these filters are basically trained on enough stolen work that they end up memorizing the tiny flaws that make a piece human. It's not even a new thing, people have been feeding artist portfolios into stuff like this for a while now. The scary part is that there's almost no way to prove it in a legal sense, since the filter output isn't a direct copy and paste. Honestly, I'd start by seeing if Etsy has a report tool for unauthorized derivative work, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. The system is just not built to catch this kind of thing fast enough.
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