In recent years, AI has generated significant buzz, sparking widespread debate. There have been numerous arguments both for and against its use, leading to disagreements both online and offline. The undeniable truth is that artificial intelligence is here to stay, and it will impact our lives to a great extent.
When it comes to art, the feeling of insecurity is justified. AI will threaten the artist's expression because, let's be honest here, AI will create paintings much quicker for less. Critics argue that AI-generated paintings lack the emotional depth and personal touch that comes from human experiences and creativity, but it can be a matter of time, as AI still evolves. Devaluation of art is also a risk, as a concern that the spread of AI-generated art could depreciate human-created art, both culturally and economically is at stake.
We at Escape Motions believe in leveraging technology to enhance lives. Our software is using a lot of technology to enhance the user experience. Rebelle's NanoPixel export, for example, allows you to scale your images up to 16x for larger export files, which would not be possible without machine-learning technology. Many artists agree that AI art is a powerful tool but believe it shouldn't be celebrated in the same way as human-created art. And we must agree. The current lack of legislation to protect artists is frightening.
Our mission at Escape Motions is to give everyone a chance to express themselves artistically as we believe we all have the skills to dribble, draw, or paint, it is something that we need to train. With the right tools, like painting software, everyone can become an artist. That is why we understand the crisis in the industry which is currently ongoing with AI threatening the sole existence of creativity in human souls and want to support artists. Here's what we do:
No generative AI in Rebelle
Our vision is to make the best painting software for people who love to paint. We have no plans to add a generative AI in Rebelle to create full-scale art images. We believe images created with AI can serve for inspiration but to just put a whole painting together through AI is not in alignment with our vision.
Ban of fully generated AI images in Community Gallery and portfolios*
Moreover, we have updated our Terms of Use where we officially prohibit uploading fully AI-generated images to portfolios and Gallery. Eventually, in the future, it will be possible to upload an image created with the help of AI but it will need to be properly labeled.
* UPDATE [August 19, 2024]: It is now permitted to upload images created with the help of AI to the Community Gallery. If Generative AI Programs were used on the picture to any degree, you must state it when uploading the image by choosing ‘Yes‘ for the mandatory question: "Was an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system used to help create this image?" in the Community Website’s interface. The pictures you upload to your portfolio and Gallery still must be fully or partially created in Escape Motions Software.
Blocked scraping of Community Gallery and portfolios by AI robots
We have implemented various precautions to disable AI from scraping user portfolios and Community Gallery. We do not allow using any of your content by third parties for use in datasets utilized by Generative AI Programs, or in their development.
Our recent partnership with Yuify
Last but not least, we have partnered with Wacom and their new initiative called Yuify to enhance the intellectual property rights of artists. It is a service that keeps your paintings and other 2D artworks yours. It helps to prove your authorship with secure records and provides a hassle-free licensing tool.
Wacom Yuify cannot protect an artwork from being scrapped by AI tools, yet, but with the help of a Yuify record, your artwork has proof that it is human-made. It acts as a stamp of creation from an author and also establishes a direct link between the artist and his content. Yuify will be available in Rebelle pretty soon and we will talk more about Yuify in the upcoming blog. In the meantime, feel free to read this article about Yuify on Creative Bloq or visit Yuify's website.
Let's connect on Cara
We support artists on the new recently very hip social media and portfolio platform for artists - Cara. With the widespread use of generative AI, the founders decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily.
Let's connect with Escape Motions on Cara: https://cara.app/escapemotions
In conclusion, while AI presents exciting possibilities and advancements in the field of art, it also brings with it a host of ethical, economic, and cultural challenges that need to be carefully considered and addressed. At Escape Motions, we will always support artists and champion human-created art.
Keep it creative!
Your Escape Motions Team
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Acknowledging the fears and complex emotions involved and trying to be as helpful to artists as possible is a great way to go, but I hope you don't fall too far into the "anti-AI" alarmist world view that seems to be all the rage these days. A lot of this AI fearmongering is so widespread because of how social media algorithms generate profit through amplifying some negative views of the world.
Generative AI has a lot of potential and if you plan to on principle fall with the trendy crowd and avoid using new machine learning technology in your brushes, it makes the future of your software sound less exciting, honestly.
The technology for real time generative AI brushes will come and it would be a shame if you boycott using that specific form of generative AI in your tools.
Thank you, Escape Motions for standing with artists. It means a lot to us.
Excellent decisions and support
We wished for an AI that takes care of our laundry and washing our dishes, so we have more time to be creative.
We get an AI that will do our art, so we can wash the dishes, do the laundry and maintain the rigs the AI is running on.
The Terminator movies weren't wrong, but the fight is much more subtle. The PSYOPS is already running when you start to analyse the e.g. social media.
It is over for human dreams, the machine is on it now and only the guys who created it will dictate the direction.
Proof me wrong.
It doesn't really matter in the long run. AI art is the only logical way forward for commercial art applications. No publisher is going to overlook the cost and time savings impact AI has for their bottom line.
That said, I would advise anybody who is serious about making art, to abandon creating in computers altogether. As long as you work on a computer screen, your work can be done faster, cheaper, and arguably better by an AI... and that is only becoming truer with every passing minute.
However, it will be quite some time before AI and robotics become sufficiently sophisticated enough to create the same level of art in the real world with traditional materials. So, if you are looking for a safe haven to continue your creative paths, painting in the real world is it.
I made the decision to abandon making art in the computer over a year ago, when AI first really started to make an impact. The writing on the wall is clear. The genie is out of the bottle, and it is never going back. All you can do is move on.
Pretty nice of you. AIart should be an option but indeed there should still be a market for human art (what about other software tools then?) otherwise.
It'd also be good in light of Adobe and Microsoft to commit to making software (if not already) that did NOT allow any 3rd party snooping.
Most doesn't as the designers have 1,000,001 things other to do BUT there is for advanced troubleshooting often a piggyback mode. These often do have a backdoor and then as the software gets big there's a knock on the door with a Patriot Act warrant... IF there is for troubleshooting - please double check it is by default OFF and HAS to be turned on voluntarily and if it records anything that too has to be activated and can be turned off. And commit it so you couldn't override it if you wanted to so even papers served means nothing.
I don't care if someone is drawing something illegal or subversive - say the prophet you know who in a certain country - it should be as secure as their own sketchbooks, perhaps even more secure depending on how they setup their files. That way they can scribble "Down with big brother!" many times and it'd be a camera behind them NOT Rebelle that helped Mini-Luv find them.