AI content warning label
Edit: my post has been deemed malformed, and I’d like to apologize and clarify to the community. The concept of a digital watermark signifying that the artist didn’t use any image generation, LLM, GPT, etc is the proposition. I do understand it’s tough to identify the term AI in use, since most of our tech uses some form of code to modify our work without our knowledge. More-so, I mean to identify work, art, or content that did not specifically use tools to create. Again apologies!
Post: I’m wondering the world of Tildenisian thoughts on this. Say I make a piece of art, no matter the content, and it’s completely of my own hand. Should there be some kind of digital watermark to signify that accomplishment? Maybe accomplishment isn’t the right word.
I must be looking for validation, because I’ve made art recently where folks have asked the question, “What tool did you use?” and immediately felt dread and disappointment.
Perhaps it’s not even feasible to signify since “AI” is eventually impossible to circumvent when sharing your art over these series of tubes. Oh well.
What do you fine folks think?
This is a malformed question. I don't mean to sound like Stack Overflow here, but you have too many undefined terms/phrases.
If you use Photoshop, did you use AI? Probably? You probably didn't intend to, but it has a lot of AI for some definition of AI.
Did you take a picture with your phone's default camera app? It probably did some AI cleanup.
Your best option is probably honestly to just explain the tools you used and leave the judgment or lack thereof to the person seeing it.
I don't think any kind of technical answer is the solution here, just the artist's reputation and word.
I saw an artist's Instagram profile include the phrase "No AI" and I think it's easy to understand in the context of the controversy currently surrounding generative AI. It's shorthand for "I don't use generative AI to make my art".
As an artist, I'm considering using this kind of phrasing for my social media profiles too.
I don't think there's any need to quibble on the technicalities of "what is AI" within the context of the art industry-- obviously we are referring to generative AI tools such as Midjourney.
Thank you for understanding. I hate to have to put such a stamp on such things (I think back to Parental Advisory on physical music in the 90s) but a universal watermark could be useful for the future. I’m just not savvy enough to figure that out.
I think it should be the burden of those using AI to disclose that.
I realize how naive that sounds, and it's unfortunate that we find ourselves here.
I see what you are proposing as less "parental advisory" and more "certified organic."
I think AI disclosure is kind of unnecessary. Think about why people tend to not like AI generated content; It can feel generic or have some undefinable quality that people don't like. If someone uses AI tools to help them write or make some art, it's not automatically upsetting to me. I can evaluate any art individually and decide if I like it or not, but having a guarantee that it is "authentic" doesn't add any value for me.
Even if we judge art on how much effort we percieve the artist putting into it's creation, AI art isn't automatically low effort. We can already see that a lot of AI generated content is unappealing to humans, so if someone is able to make art with AI that is actually appealing, they must have put a lot of thought and effort into using AI tools in a unique, creative way.