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Popular iPad design app Procreate is coming out against generative AI, and has vowed never to introduce generative AI features into its products. The company said on its website that although machine learning is a “compelling technology with a lot of merit,” the current path that generative AI is on is wrong for its platform. 

Procreate goes on to say that it’s not chasing a technology that is a threat to human creativity, even though this may make the company “seem at risk of being left behind.”

Procreate CEO James Cuda released an even stronger statement against the technology in a video posted to X on Monday.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 42 points 2 months ago

Generative AI steals art.

Procreate's customers are artists.

Stands to reason you don't piss your customer base off.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 18 points 2 months ago

Generative AI steals art.

No it doesn't. Drop that repeated lie please

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Is it really not true? How many companies have been training their models using art straight out of the Internet while completely disregarding their creative licences or asking anyone for permission? How many times haven't people got a result from a GenAI model that broke IP rights, or looked extremely similar to an already existing piece of art, and would probably get people sued? And how many of these models have been made available for commercial purposes?

The only logical conclusion is that GenAI steals art because it has been constantly "fed" with stolen art.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 12 points 2 months ago

It does not steal art. It does not store copies of art, it does not deprive anyone of their pictures, it does not remix other people's pictures, it does not recreate other people's pictures unless very very specifically directed to do so (and that''s on the human not he AI), and even then it usually gets things "wrong". If you don't completely redefine theft then it does not steal art

[-] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

You don't need permission to train a model on any art. No IP rights are being broken.

[-] pmc 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe not legally, but this isn't a legal argument. It's a moral one.

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago

You are right, generally, generative AI pirates art and the rest of the content on the internet.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

That is at least borderline more correct, but it's still wrong. It learns using a neural network much like, but much simpler than, the one in your head

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

It doesn't "learn" anything, its a database with linear algebra. Using anthropomorphic adjectives only helps to entrench this useless and wasteful technology to regular people.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

Trying to redefine the word "learn" won;t help your cause either. Stop being a luddite and realise that it is neither useless not wasteful

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Everyone loves increased work load and wow that's a lot of power to... do what exactly.

You don't need to resort to name calling, you could make a compelling argument instead...

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm calling you a luddite because you're being a luddite. AI is just a new medium, that's all it is, you're just scared of new technology just like how idiots were scared of photography a hundred and some years ago. You do not have an argument that holds any water because they were all made against photography, and many of them against pre-mixed paints before that!

Also I'm done arguing with anti-ai luddites because you are about as intractable as trump cultists. I'll respond to a level or two of comments in good faith because someone else might see your nonsense and believe it but this deep it's most likely you and me, and you're not gonna be convinced of anything.

Stop being a luddite

[-] paperd@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Name calling is what people do when they don't have any rational argument left, and you've done it twice.

[-] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

How do you know AI companies straight-up pirate the art and don't just buy a copy to train their models?

[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 8 points 2 months ago

How about “it’s complicated”? It certainly doesn’t steal art and it certainly does lower the need for humans to create art.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 7 points 2 months ago

Honestly the need for art has nothing to do with the urge to create art. People will create art no matter what and capitalism treats them like shit for it but that;s a totally different argument

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago

Why do you think it ingests all its content from. Problem isn't the AI itself it's the companies that operated but it's not inaccurate to conflate the two things.

I think you'll be in a little disingenuous.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

You're being disingenuous by trying to redefine the concept of theft. It does not steal anything by any definition of the word. It learn using a neural network similar to, but much simpler than, the one in your head

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thefts is defined as in law. If something is stolen I.e it is not compensated for, then it is theft. You can't get around it by going "oh well technically it's transformative by a non-human intelligence" that doesn't work. The law not recognize AI systems as being intelligent entities, so they are therefore not capable of transformative work.

This isn't a matter of personal opinion it's just what the law is. You can't argue about it.

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'm impressed you've managed to go from "wrong" to "not even wrong" - that is so far from correct that you can't even conceive of the right answer. Stop being a luddite

[-] jojo 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lmao keep telling yourself that

[-] ReCursing@lemmings.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure. I'll keep telling others that too because I'm right

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