The action figures generated by artificial intelligence permeated food on social networks last week while people fed with self -chatting and asked him to pack them in miniature toys.
The resulting images, called a “starting package” for a specific person, show packaged dolls that acquire the appearance of the subjects, complete with personalized mini accessories, such as ice cream, laptop computers, perhaps cameras or pairs of running shoes, and labeled with the names and work titles of the subjects.
The tendency of the starting package of the action figure is the latest iteration of a growing cycle of meme AI, in which Internet users who discover ideas for works of art generated by rapidly inspire others to produce content using the same notice. In recent years, fashions inspired by AI have stimulated the growing scrutiny about how they are contributing to problems such as environmental waste and devaluation of human work.
Starting packages gained traction in recent days as brands and public figures participated.
Holly Rolfe, an illustrator and ceramist based in England who sells his online work, said he found himself sighing of frustration when he noticed that the action figures took off.
“The worst was to see small, especially creative companies, and even graphic designers, rising to the trend,” Rolfe said. “I think it reinforces how large soras companies can be and accentuates the abyss between the brand and the consumer. Each of those businesses, even the little ones, could have allowed us to pay an artist. But they did not.”
Soon, artists like Rolfe began to circulate their own versions drawn by hand of the trend, shared on several social networks platforms under the hashtag #starterpacknoai, to counteract the wave of content produced by AI.
Operai, the AI giant behind Chatgpt, has been sued by various media, authors and visual artists who allege copyright violation. Recently he has asked the United States government to facilitate companies to learn from copyright, citing the need to “strengthen US lead” worldwide to advance technology.
An Openai spokesman wrote in a statement sent by email that the company’s generation tools “are designed to support human creativity, not replace it, help anyone explore ideas and express themselves in new ways.”
As the generative AI becomes increasingly sophisticated and accessible, many AI models seem to generate images in the styles of specific artists or studies.
Last month, the memes and portraits generated by ChatGPT on the theme of the distinctive animation style of Studio Ghibli flooded the Internet, causing possible copyright concerns of online users and causing some observers to resurface the co -founder of Studio Hayao Miyazaki that call the art generated by AI “a concern in itself.”
Openai told NBC News at that time that prevents generations of images from “the style of individual living artists, but we allow broader study styles.” Studio Ghibli did not respond to a comment request last month on the images generated by the created in his animation style.
Rachel Dormal, a graphic designer in Michigan who sells her own inline art impressions, said she cares that artists are expelled from their livelihoods as people choose to pay lower prices for instant commissions generated by AI instead of a job done by humans, which often costs more due to the time and work of the artists.
And most developers do not reveal the specific data used to train their AI models, giving rise to concerns about the possible theft of human work without the knowledge or consent of the artists.
“People do not understand all the training data that are absorbed to create a soul -free reproduction of someone’s style. There are some artists who spend their entire life building a specific style, just to be stolen and renowned as the ‘IA style’,” said Dormal. “Ghibli is an excellent example. But it happens to smaller and less known artists every day.”
Dormal was one of the many online artists who shared their own shots of the “Starter pack” trend, attracting its own personalized version in the Procreate Digital Art Software. In his drawing, the package label says: “Real human artist.”
Kentucky digital artist, April Schweiss, joined the trend and was drawn as an action figure with accessories such as her Fred cat, her composition notebook and her skates. Since the images generated by AI infiltrated the market, said Schweiss, has been struggling to live full time through their illustrations.
“I can’t keep up with someone who uses AI to create shirt designs and are making fall and uploading 150 designs in a month, while I could only create five paintings that month,” Schweiss said. “That other artist who uses ia could have 10,000 sales, where I will have three.”
For the writer and illustrator Haley Weaver, who has been sharing her art online for almost a decade, the eagerness of the Internet for adopting trends driven by AI is not surprising.
Weaver, based in Seattle, said he can understand why people are tempted to try tools that show them how they would look like a Disney princess, a character from Studio Ghibli or an action figure, especially when those options are faster and cheaper than hire real artists.
“But I also believe that there is something really sad about that. And it is afraid as someone who currently makes a living as an artist,” said Weaver, and pointed out that he has often found his own art style replaced or sold without permission throughout his career.
More recently, he also discovered that some models of AI could produce written answers that resembled their tone when they were asked to generate something “in the style of @haleydrewthis.”
Weaver said that while he thought that the starting packages generated by AI were “so cute”, it was not until he began to see the artists give their shots by hand that the action figures began to feel “moving.” For his own “Haley Weaver Starter Pack”, he made sure to include the label “100% AI free!”
“It is such an instant gratification to write some things about you, upload a photo and there you are as an action figure. But by my experience, much of that satisfaction also does it yourself and taking the time to really think,” said Weaver. “There is also the beauty that everyone has their own unique style. I think that a lot of art of ia simply looks the same.”
