AI is not a "tool" for artists! It is a tool to replace artists after being sufficiently trained by them. The database "Laion-5b" consists of 5.8 billion images that are used for commercial purposes without the consent or compensation of the copyright holders!! I find it frightening how uncritically AI is reported on and how unreflectively it is dealt with! I recommend watching the following video of the Artist Steven Zapata:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&t=8s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&t=8s</a>And if you want to check if your own images are in the world's biggest pirate database, you can opt out image by image here - I know artists who have spent weeks deactivating their images there:<a href="https://haveibeentrained.com" target="_blank">https://haveibeentrained.com</a>/But especially Midjourney is not giving any access or insight into its huge database of pirated images.It was only allowed to use the internet images for scientific research purposes, but the real financial backers are the current commercial AI companies (behind them Google, Elon Musk and others...)At stake is the income and future of millions of artists whose works were copied to build the illegal database. If you are happy about beautiful images, you should first ask where they come from and what is the price we all pay. The narrative that it is pure AI is part of the corporations' legal smoke screen tactics. Currently, lawsuits are being filed against it in courts around the world.

AI is not a "tool" for artists! It is a tool to replace artists after being sufficiently trained by them. The database "Laion-5b" consists of 5.8 billion images that are used for commercial purposes without the consent or compensation of the copyright holders!! I find it frightening how uncritically AI is reported on and how unreflectively it is dealt with! I recommend watching the following video of the Artist Steven Zapata:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&t=8s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&t=8s</a>And if you want to check if your own images are in the world's biggest pirate database, you can opt out image by image here - I know artists who have spent weeks deactivating their images there:<a href="https://haveibeentrained.com" target="_blank">https://haveibeentrained.com</a>/But especially Midjourney is not giving any access or insight into its huge database of pirated images.It was only allowed to use the internet images for scientific research purposes, but the real financial backers are the current commercial AI companies (behind them Google, Elon Musk and others...)At stake is the income and future of millions of artists whose works were copied to build the illegal database. If you are happy about beautiful images, you should first ask where they come from and what is the price we all pay. The narrative that it is pure AI is part of the corporations' legal smoke screen tactics. Currently, lawsuits are being filed against it in courts around the world.

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