Someone stole a live artist's art via an AI

The Internet, and to a lesser extent social networks, are places where sometimes strange and interesting controversies arise. Aside from the controversies about “people complaining about certain anime” and how they’re generally just idiots looking for attention, a more recent one has nothing to talk about: Artificial intelligence that creates illustrations.

A few days ago, a fan of an artist Genshin impact A new creation was being made via a stream on Twitch. Before finishing the fanart and posting it on Twitter, one of his viewers first “finished” it by providing a work-in-progress screenshot to an AI generator. After the artist posted his finished art, the art thief started demanding credit from the original artist. «You posted it 5-6 hours after me, for that kind of drawing, you can do it faster», wrote the scoundrel shamelessly. «You took a reference from an AI image, but at least admit it».

is the affected person A.T, a Korean animation artist who streams process videos on Twitch. He decided to do a shoot on October 11 Shogun Raiden of Genshin impact in front of a live audience. Then a Twitter user “Musaish” In the process the image was copied and a similar image of the character was created with the service Short storiesIt was then uploaded six hours before the artist’s stream ended. He probably would have gotten away with it if he hadn’t tried to attack AT for publishing his own art. “Musaish” has deleted his account because many fans and artists were upset by his blatant art theft.

Ever since the software behind AI-generated art became commonplace, real-life artists have struggled to maintain control over their creations. Now they have to worry about proving that they are the creators. In response to the incident, one artist reminded the audience to keep backups of his process. Several artists tweeted that they did not want their work broadcast again. «Now any of us can accuse art thieves of ‘stealing’ because their AI art ‘finished’ the piece first.» wrote an artist.

To conclude this article, let’s review an illustration completed by the artist (on the left) and one created and previously completed by the AI (on the right).