AI-generated art is just pulling from existing work people have created and throwing elements together to create what the algorithm thinks you want. But it’s not often you hear specifics of where an AI program is scraping from. Well, the CEO behind AI art-generating program Midjourney allegedly has been training the algorithm on work by Magic: The Gathering artists the entire time.
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Reid Southern, an artist who has worked with companies like Marvel and DC, posted screenshots of what he claims to be interactions on Midjourney’s Discord server. They show a conversation between Midjourney CEO David Holz and others, with Holz claiming that he had the program create “huge swaths of MTG cards” during test sequences in the program’s early days, and used the work of Magic artists to feed the machine sources to pull from in making art based on prompts.
This accompanies new evidence for the ongoing lawsuit against Midjourney, DeviantArt, and Stability AI (thanks Dicebreaker), which includes a list of the names of over 4,700 artists whose work has allegedly been scraped by Midjourney. The lawsuit representing artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz claims AI-generative software is built upon a foundation of copyrighted work. Holz, however, doesn’t want to be involved in the plagiarism debate. Too late, bucko.
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