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In most cases, I don\u2019t have much idea of what\u2019s going on in the world other than what I see people talking about on social media.\u00a0 I simply don\u2019t go out of my way like I used to, to seek out information and the happenings in the world as I occasionally did in the life before children.\u00a0 However, over the last few days, the topic of some AI art generator, Lensa, has been noticeably a hot topic as far as my digital eyes can see.<\/span><\/p>\n Mostly because it\u2019s been determined that Lensa\u2019s art database in which it pulls its art generation from has been built up from billions and billions of images of photos and artwork from the internet, mostly with no sense of consent or permission, which ultimately concludes with the notion that they are using a fuckload of stolen artwork to feed the database.<\/span><\/p>\n In this debate, I\u2019ve noticed that there are two very prevalent sides, both of which like in so many cases, have their feet firmly implanted in the mud and neither seemingly willing to yield a single digital e-inch on their opinions. \u00a0There\u2019s the side of the creators, the people who have been creating, artwork, or rather content, whose creations have been absorbed and usurped into Lensa\u2019s database without any sort of authorization, and feeding a machine that is spitting out AI-generated results at the beck and call for its increasing base of users.\u00a0 This is the side of the equation that is unhappy, angry and calling for the cancellation of a service that has stolen the work and creations of countless artists, for use in a, for now, trendy art generator.<\/span><\/p>\n On the other side are, what I like to call, are the consumers.\u00a0 These are the people who have been using Lensa to entertain themselves by creating all sorts of modified images of themselves or whomever they want to process through the Lensa AI.\u00a0 All of these people are pretty much completely okay with Lensa and where they get their content from, and wish for people to leave Lensa alone and let them have their fun photo generator, regardless of negative perception of what their database is being fed from.<\/span><\/p>\n From what I\u2019ve been witnessing, creators are furious because in most cases, many of them can cite examples of their work having already been fed into the Lensa database.\u00a0 Understandably, they are very unhappy with some AI hoovering up the things they\u2019ve created, and really wish that people, including their friends who fall into the other side to stop using Lensa, and try to educate them to why they shouldn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n However, the consumers, are in no rush to stop being Lensa, because regardless of education and regardless of how their artist friends may feel about it, they\u2019re in no rush to stop using it.\u00a0 It\u2019s giving them entertainment, it\u2019s giving them amusement, but most importantly, it\u2019s giving them content<\/em> in the form of digitally altered images of themselves in fun and kooky ways, in a variety of art styles generated by AI.\u00a0 I\u2019ve noticed that these people aren\u2019t the types to just quietly use Lensa and hope nobody judges them for it, but instead are usually the ones who defend it, tell their artist friends to let it go and chill, and we all know how well that goes with people, especially on the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n If it wasn\u2019t obvious, I\u2019m of course on the side of the artists.\u00a0 Out of curiosity, I floated some example images of photos of mine that I\u2019ve known are pretty well seen, and sure enough, they\u2019re populating in the Lensa, which means that I\u2019m also \u201ca victim\u201d of AI theft.\u00a0 I don\u2019t want to delve deeper, because I know of the thousands of photos and images that I\u2019ve uploaded onto the internet over the last 24 years, lord only knows just how much of my shit has already fed some AI.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve concluded that it\u2019s not really a situation where it\u2019s artists versus Lensa, but really artists versus the narcissism of consumers, and when the day is over, that\u2019s truly an unwinnable battle for those who create.\u00a0 It\u2019s like cockroaches, you can kill 99 out of 100 roaches in a home, but as long as that 100th<\/sup> cockroach lives, infestation is inevitable to occur again.\u00a0 Artists can beg and plead with all of their friends and followers to stop using Lensa, but as long as they have the few people who will quietly use it, they\u2019re never going to get any sense of victory in the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n Because that\u2019s really all it is, at the root of things.\u00a0 Consumers like getting fun pictures of themselves and they don\u2019t really care where they\u2019re coming from, and Lensa has, whether by design or not, tapped into a human behavior that is their biggest ally in getting their service off the ground.\u00a0 The consumers are doing the defense for them, and the artists are exhausting themselves screaming into the aether, and Lensa is quietly growing and spreading without any consequence.<\/span><\/p>\n Whether it was intentional or not, it is an ingenious, albeit shithead execution.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In most cases, I don\u2019t have much idea of what\u2019s going on in the world other than what I see people talking about on social media.\u00a0 I simply don\u2019t go out of my way like I used to, to seek out information and the happenings in the world as I occasionally did in the life … Continue reading Re: Lensa, AI artwork and 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