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CONF: On May 8, 2025, the University of Fribourg hosts „The (Ab)use of AI-Generated Images“, a conference exploring the ethical, legal, and societal implications of synthetic visuals in journalism, law, and art.
How do we legislate images that blur authorship, reality, and intent?
#AIArt #Ethics #MediaLiteracy
arthist.net/archive/47197

arthist.netThe (ab)use of AI generated images (Fribourg, 8 May 25)Julia Gelshorn, Université de Fribourg. University of Fribourg (CH), May 08, 2025

My church has a projector that shows announcements before Mass begins. I've suspected for a while that they were using Generative AI pictures in some of these slides and my suspicions were confirmed today by the three-armed Pharisee and the fact that Jesus had 4.5 fingers (his pinky was growing out of his ring finger). I guess my priest is going to get a strongly worded email in a few minutes...

From: blenderdumbass . org

Meta ( allegedly ) tried to hire 3D artists to justify in court that 3D art is apparently so easy and quick to make, that it is uncopyrightable, so they could not ask for permission from 3D artists for training their AI.

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/me

blenderdumbass . orgMeta Argues: Art is so Easy it is Uncopyrightable
#Meta#Ai#Blender3d

To distinguish yourself from AI imitations—put your humanity into your work. Bare your soul. Find what makes you you. Maybe get some therapy. 😶‍🌫️

“Embrace the Inimitable: Focus on aspects of creativity that AI struggles to replicate—conceptual depth, cultural context, personal narrative, and authentic emotional resonance. The most human elements of art remain the most difficult to algorithmically reproduce.”

—From Sarang Sheth’s article “HOW JAPAN’S COPYRIGHT LAWS ALLOWED CHATGPT TO BLATANTLY ‘STEAL’ STUDIO GHIBLI’S WORK” yankodesign.com/2025/03/31/how

Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News · How Japan’s Copyright Laws Allowed ChatGPT to Blatantly ‘Steal’ Studio Ghibli’s Work - Yanko DesignThis is a story of betrayal, and how Japan 'screwed over' its most beloved artist in the name of AI supremacy/advocacy. If you've been on the internet in the past week, you've clearly seen a flood of AI-generated photos in a certain Anime style. Referred colloquially to as the 'Studio Ghibli' aesthetic, it captures the
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It is a tool that produces results and has good/useful uses. It should improve our lives, not make us dumber, lazier and be the sole source of knowledge/"creation"
If the trend we see currently on social media, search engines, writing... Is our future, then it is very bleak.

Are people forgetting the very core of what makes our #humanity ? #humans #facism #ai #aiart #populism #aitools #criticalthinking #creativity #aitools #aieverywhere

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Just like digital art is not easier than traditional art (I find it the other way round for instance). Would you say writing a book on word and not by hand is cheating? Bfr. If technical, frame by frame, apparent complexity was the only goal of art, we would have stopped long ago... Being realistic stopped being the goal long ago, if it were ever the sole goal (spoiler alert: no)