The villainizing that dannorder is referring to is happening elsewhere, not here. And it is happening - in the last 12 months or so we've crossed a threshold where a large number of people suddenly become extremely spooked by a new technological development that doesn't fit into the old rules.
A somewhat similar thing happened with the media giants and file-sharing networks back in the 2000s... companies with real clout suddenly noticed their products being shared on a huge scale, and they went berserk. From what I understand, in the end it was clear that the public were just not going to give in to their bullying, so they took a completely different strategy, which worked great - they changed their business model to adopt the new tech, and since then nobody even talks about file-sharing networks any more.
The big difference this time is that it seems to be much less the giant media companies who are up in arms. It's small creators-for-hire and aspiring artists who are fearing for their livelihood and career prospects. All of the noise that I've seen echoes of, is really coming from the little people this time. Whereas with the file-sharing networks it was overwhelmingly the public versus the greedy corporations, with AI art we seem to have the public splitting into two camps.
You'd think that Nintendo and Disney (etc) would definitely care about protecting their rights to Mario and Elsa (etc), but perhaps they simply aren't threatened by fair use. They would probably never go after somebody drawing their characters for a personal portfolio, whereas they might go after someone who was selling figurines of their characters. So GenML users churning out endless images of their characters may not bother them. Users churning out images of their characters which then become CC0, and might lead to their rights to the character being Xeroxed, almost certainly will bother them, so I expect we will see them move heaven and earth to prevent that. But they may not care at all if people churn out characters that are simply influenced by Mario - whether they drew the character by hand, or got an AI tool to do it - because how does that threaten them? My guess is that we'll only see them try that "your character is influenced by ours, so we own your character" thuggery on the day where some character generated by little people using AI tools becomes huge enough to be really worth something; I believe there's some high profile precedent from the music industry for that kind of ambushing.
For my own amusement, and because I haven't found time lately to work on anything much new, I brought the final boss of Turrican 2 into the Super Dead Space Merc art set. No license for this guy, obviously. He's only visiting to take part in a mockup. All the other assets in this image are from other subs in the series.
After I finally noticed zwonky's comment, it inspired me to add some different colour schemes for the character, and try to make it easier to recolour.
It is a funny idea! :-)
This could be tagged to go in the current competition?
Also... is that a ship that flaps its wings?
Behold: a nerdy experiment in designing an Amiga 500 hardware sprite background from those badass mountains. (CC0)
Good spot Ragnar - I didn't find swordgirl in the zip either, and also about half of the images in the previews appear to be missing from it as well.
The villainizing that dannorder is referring to is happening elsewhere, not here. And it is happening - in the last 12 months or so we've crossed a threshold where a large number of people suddenly become extremely spooked by a new technological development that doesn't fit into the old rules.
A somewhat similar thing happened with the media giants and file-sharing networks back in the 2000s... companies with real clout suddenly noticed their products being shared on a huge scale, and they went berserk. From what I understand, in the end it was clear that the public were just not going to give in to their bullying, so they took a completely different strategy, which worked great - they changed their business model to adopt the new tech, and since then nobody even talks about file-sharing networks any more.
The big difference this time is that it seems to be much less the giant media companies who are up in arms. It's small creators-for-hire and aspiring artists who are fearing for their livelihood and career prospects. All of the noise that I've seen echoes of, is really coming from the little people this time. Whereas with the file-sharing networks it was overwhelmingly the public versus the greedy corporations, with AI art we seem to have the public splitting into two camps.
You'd think that Nintendo and Disney (etc) would definitely care about protecting their rights to Mario and Elsa (etc), but perhaps they simply aren't threatened by fair use. They would probably never go after somebody drawing their characters for a personal portfolio, whereas they might go after someone who was selling figurines of their characters. So GenML users churning out endless images of their characters may not bother them. Users churning out images of their characters which then become CC0, and might lead to their rights to the character being Xeroxed, almost certainly will bother them, so I expect we will see them move heaven and earth to prevent that. But they may not care at all if people churn out characters that are simply influenced by Mario - whether they drew the character by hand, or got an AI tool to do it - because how does that threaten them? My guess is that we'll only see them try that "your character is influenced by ours, so we own your character" thuggery on the day where some character generated by little people using AI tools becomes huge enough to be really worth something; I believe there's some high profile precedent from the music industry for that kind of ambushing.
Broken link to GrafxKid's art sub (the banner art link). The text is correct, but the hyperlink isn't.
Some time later I noticed that the perspective is wrong on the left and right frames - it doesn't match the rest of the set.
At some future time I might fix that...
For my own amusement, and because I haven't found time lately to work on anything much new, I brought the final boss of Turrican 2 into the Super Dead Space Merc art set. No license for this guy, obviously. He's only visiting to take part in a mockup. All the other assets in this image are from other subs in the series.
After I finally noticed zwonky's comment, it inspired me to add some different colour schemes for the character, and try to make it easier to recolour.
Okay, I think that's everything. I'm glad you liked it!
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