So I’ve started to see what is seemingly Gen AI slop being labeled with an artist’s name as some sort of slight of hand or less likely the name of the artist that generated it. I came across one name in particular a few times now, but I’m not sure the ‘human artist’ even exists.
Anyone else noticed this kind of thing? When I did a bit of searching around, all the references were other people sharing the ‘art’ of this ‘digital painter’ or ‘digital artist’. There’s even a short bio that has been reused across many sites like pinterest, facebook, instagram, etc.
But if you search before 2020, there’s much less results. The most legit looking page indicated the ‘autodidactic’ artist first started putting out works in ~2017, which just happens to correspond to when the first art gen AI was made publicly available.
I’m guessing this is happening at significant scale across different creative domains. I’ve come across albums on youtube that are also gen AI, but do a pretty good job obfuscating it. At least in that case it did eventually lead to an admission if you dug a bit into the label/artist. This one I’m thinking of also was posing as a ‘band’ from like 50 years ago, like this was some cool music that had been found and republished.
It’s just gonna keep getting worse I guess, that seems to be the trajectory here. Is there a crypto verification scheme proposed already as the solution to this?
This is from 2 years ago, but I haven’t heard much about any other stuff like this yet.
I’ve read a few years ago of AI slop having like an unreadable signature on the bottom right, due to using a lot of data that had signatures there, including many from a same artist. I believe it was a Tweet by RJ Palmer. But what you describe seems more like someone is just putting their name on the slop they generate afterwards, with a simple image processing software.
Another possibility I find a bit less likely would be that it is like that old phenomenon where the ai tries to generate the signature, but it actually does it correctly because it got better at handling text and enough of the art used is from the same person to make a coherent one.