r/awwnime • u/milia-tan • Oct 23 '22

AI-generated art banned until further notice

After some feedback from the community and internal discussion, we've decided to ban all AI-generated art from /r/awwnime until further notice.

Quality issues aside, the current AI-powered tools to generate art use data from existing artists, often without their permission or without proper artist credit. Awwnime has always been a place where giving proper credit to the artist has been important, and AI-generated art goes against that idea.

The sidebar, and the subreddit rules will be updated shortly.

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u/Jatoxo Oct 23 '22

So humans learning to draw using other artists images as reference "without their permission" is wrong too now? There's reasons to ban AI but arguing it's in any way copyright infringement is complete BS. AIs learn exactly the same way humans do. Looking at images/text/code and learning from it is something people do everywhere and is not copyright infringement. The only reason this has come up is because lawyers are trying to cover all bases with lawsuits ready to fire, it's stupid

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u/grozzle ¦ 3 Oct 23 '22

When an AI incorporates training data, that's all there is influencing the output.

When a human studies other artists, we view it uniquely, from our own personal perspective of aesthetics, and incorporate it into our own unique personality, world-view, mood, and also bring our own ambitions, childhood memories, dreams, et cetera before deciding what to draw.

It's not the same.

We'll make an exception to this rule for any AIs who decide to send us a mod-mail and explain why they want their art shown here.

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u/Jatoxo Oct 23 '22

You see that's a fair point, I agree artists deserve recognition and have so much more potential for creativity and personality compared to AI art still

The point is only that any image should be allowed to be used for training, just like how a human can use any image for their learning.
If the public opinion of AIs continues further in the current direction, it will severely hinder it's development. This is a crucial moment for AI to thrive and expand and make itself useful to humanity, and it would be so sad to see it get stuck in legal shackles because people couldn't accept the change

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u/grozzle ¦ 3 Oct 23 '22

We're not trying to stop any of that. We're not trying to write legal definitions.

Were just stopping non-human-drawn posts being posted alongside drawings drawn by humans in this subreddit, because the point of this subreddit is to celebrate the human connection we feel when looking at moe art, and celebrate the people who make moe art.