An unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model
I&#x27;m thinking a little bit of empathy doesn&#x27;t hurt. Reason from Hollie&#x27;s point of view. She didn&#x27;t ask for this and was working on cool stuff:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;holliemengert.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;holliemengert.com&#x2F;</a><p>Next, somebody grabs her work (copyrighted by the clients she works for), without permission. Then goes on to try and create an AI version of her style. When confronted, the guy&#x27;s like: &quot;meh, ah well&quot;.<p>Doesn&#x27;t matter if it&#x27;s legal or not, it&#x27;s careless and plain rude. Meanwhile, Hollie is quite cool-headed and reasonable about it. Not aggressive, not threatening to sue, just expressing civilized dislike, which is as reasonable as it gets.<p>Next, she gets to see her name on the orange site, reading things like &quot;style is bad and too generic&quot;, a wide series of cold-hearted legal arguments and &quot;get out of the way of progress&quot;.<p>How wonderful. Maybe consider that there&#x27;s a human being on the other end? Here she is:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XWiwZLJVwi4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=XWiwZLJVwi4</a><p>A kind and creative soul, which apparently is now worth 2 hours of GPU time.<p>I too believe AI art is inevitable and cannot be stopped at this point. Doesn&#x27;t mean we have to be so ruthless about it.