Painter Andrew Tischler on AI being Bad for Artists

 Salvete Omnes,

a short entry on the world of art and Beauty versus the world of AI machines.

I have been watching the unfolding AI 'epidemic' of soulless uninspiring imagery.
Today I saw this video by Andrew Tischler - Ai is still Bad for Artists. 

Greg Rutkowski, famous for his fantasy worlds, dragons etc, has had misfortune of his art and creativity endlessly ripped off, 'copied' & prompted by the AI machines. This BBC article says his art has been emulated more times than Picasso's. All this resulting in the AI theft of his intellectual and creative rights - here an example of such 'AI users demand for Rutkowski's art style.'

From The Authors Guild also comes the opposition to the Artificial Intelligence fair use of the published books, and lawsuits like Bartz vs Anthropic that fight against AI for using books without permission to train language models.

 
 The Authors Guild  website provides access to knowledge regarding the AI licensing for authors and much more about this 'revolution' in the creative authorship.

Know your rights, ethical limits of AI imagery, copyrights while do oppose uninspired imagery and curtailment of human creativity along with the assault on natural Beauty that moves the Universe and makes humanity unique and divinely-inspired. 

Illustrated by the great art from the past

ps

another Polish artist who wrote about art and AI software developers and flooding of the art interweb, especially Net art platforms etc by the AI-generated images.

Valete

Shenanigans in Kaunas War Museum, Lithuania

 Salvete Omnes,
I have been defrauded by Paypal (more than 1000 dollars), Russian publisher and some Polish writer. But this is old, now something new. 

on Monday I found out through Facebook page of this gentleman  - Aliaksei Lastouski - that the Vytauto Didziojo Karo Miziejus( Vitatuas War Museum) in Kaunas, Republic of Lithuanian, used my own drawing for their exhibit without any consent nor permission from me. 

Note that the exhibit was created with the cooperation with the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum of Lviv, Ukraine. And Radoslaw Sikora's splendid book on the winged hussars was published in Ukraine in 2019AD . In that book my drawing, along with others,. was published on page 156 of that Ukrainian edition .

But hardly a hilarious aspect of this fact is that they did not ask me for any permission to use my drawing in this displays prior to setting up this display within their exhibit - they not only used my drawing but also manipulated it and after manipulation enlarged it to monstrous size, that was never intended by me to be made this large - due to limitation of the technique used. I am not flattered nor please. I am wronged. 

I am providing a link to the exhibit and  attaching the photo by Aliaskei Lastouski on the privilege & purpose of citation - 

I wonder what they - the Museum - gonna offer as an excuse, justification and whether they provide me with any compensation here.
I wonder how they got a copy of my artwork ? 

c'est la vie nowadays I guess

Valete
ps today is 911  -