For the previous week, ArtStation—the world’s hottest portfolio website for skilled (and beginner!) artists working within the leisure enterprise—has been rocked by protests from its customers, after homeowners Epic Video games refused to supply ample protections towards the rising menace of AI-generated imagery.
For the primary few days of that protest, most customers merely pasted a clear, daring picture by Alexander Nanitchkov, utilizing repetition in numbers to have the positioning’s entrance web page wanting like this:
As the times have marched on, although, and ArtStation and Epic refuse to supply extra appropriate protections for the very artworks their website is designed for, artists have moved on and have determined to give you items which are a bit extra elaborate, and private.
I believed I’d spotlight a few of my favourites on this put up. You’ll discover hyperlinks to their passionate, artistic and deeply human portfolios of every artist accountable within the names below every picture.
We first wrote about this saga again on December 13, when a rising variety of AI-created photos showing on ArtStation’s entrance web page prompted a backlash from artists. In response, ArtStation’s homeowners Epic Video games stated:
ArtStation’s content material pointers don’t prohibit the usage of AI instruments within the course of of making art work that’s shared with the group. That stated, ArtStation is a portfolio platform designed to raise and have fun originality powered by a group of artists. Customers’ portfolios ought to solely function art work that they create, and we encourage customers to be clear within the course of. Our content material pointers are right here.
ArtStation then revealed an FAQ searching for to “make clear” the difficulty, however as a substitute simply made issues worse, implementing a coverage the place customers must decide out of getting AI scrape their artworks (and even then being unable to ensure AI wouldn’t simply scrape it anyway). There have been no updates within the days since, which means the protests have continued, with as we speak’s entrance web page wanting very similar to final week’s (lots of the photos not utilizing the usual, pasted response are nonetheless anti-AI).
