Wednesday, January 10, 2024

A desicion

I am worried about art programs using generative AI creation in their programs. Many tablet and art companies have been using gen AI lately:

Tablets:

  • HUION and Gaomon (the tablet I use) have promoted an AI art class. They have apologized and blamed it on a third party, an independent art platform called JiDan.
  • UGEE and XPPen have used AI to generate images for promotion of their tablets. They have apologized for using AI in October, blaming it on a third party supplier. However, the former, the parent company of XPPen and Xencelabs, has still kept AI promotion images in their Amazon listings as early as November.
  • Wacom has used AI generated dragons for their Chinese New Year sale. They blame this on buying stock images and only using machine detection to see if it is AI. Machine detection is no better than generative AI. The only thing it's better at is not (blatantly) stealing from artists.

I'm not trusting anyone else to not use AI, sorry Artisul and Parblo. Next time I buy a drawing tablet, it will definitely be secondhand.

Art Programs:

  • IbisPaint announced a premium only feature where you can generate an AI version of your work so you can use the AI version as reference and "experiment with different styles". They have reversed it the next day.
  • In 2022, CLIP STUDIO PAINT added an AI art feature in its program, and reversed the decision three days later.
  • Adobe has an AI art generation program called Adobe Firefly, and these images can be added to the Adobe Stock shop. Despite controversy, they show no intention of backing down.
  • Microsoft, creator of MS Paint, is going heavy with AI by acquiring ChatGPT and making a Bing and Windows 11 AI with it. They are also using DALL E for making AI generated images with their own studio. The Windows 11 version of MS Paint has an early access feature called Cocreator. If I remember correctly, the future of gen AI is Microsoft's primary goal at the moment.

Non-Art:

  • Duolingo has been promoting AI for years, removing the forums for a translator chatbot, but not until the latest layoffs of its translators has it gotten people's attention.

Unlikely:

  • GIMP and Paint.net are unlikely to follow this route, I think. They have better things to do.
  • Procreate has stated they are against AI. This was not for an apology, they have not used it before. The apps they have made don't connect to wi-fi besides for importing or exporting (I don't know how it works actually) so it seems like it's technologically impossible for Procreate or Procreate Dreams to even have gen AI tools, at least the 4k prompt kind.
  • Krita is open source. Not in a million years, and if they do, there will be a new version with the same code made by a third party to replace it.
  • Medibang and FireAlpaca? I don't keep up with them. They either will or will not.

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