{"id":1734,"date":"2022-12-12T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T02:06:42","slug":"artists-voice-concerns-over-the-signatures-in-viral-lensaai-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/artists-voice-concerns-over-the-signatures-in-viral-lensaai-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Voice Concerns Over The Signatures In Viral LensaAI Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">Overnight, the photo-editing app LensaAI became massively successful when they rolled out their Magic Avatar feature, which uses\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_ai\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" data-tag=\"ai\">AI<\/a>\u00a0technology and 10-20 photos from users to create AI assisted portraits in a variety of styles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">However, artists who have been suspicious of the use of AI image generators became concerned when they saw what looked like signatures scrawled in the corners of many of these AI portraits. Some artists contend that this could prove that LensaAI was stealing work that had included the watermarks or signatures that artists use to prevent theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">An illustrator who goes by Lauryn Ipsum on Twitter pointed out this phenomenon in what is now a viral\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tweet<\/a>: \u201cThese are all Lensa portraits where the mangled remains of an artist\u2019s signature is still visible,\u201d Ipsum wrote, with attached pictures. \u201cThat\u2019s the remains of the signature of one of the multiple artists it stole from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">The signatures the AI created were all illegible, and to Prisma Labs (the parent company of\u00a0<a id=\"auto-tag_lensa-ai\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\" data-tag=\"lensa-ai\">Lensa AI<\/a>), do not constitute proof of theft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cThe notion of \u2018remains of artists\u2019 signatures\u2019 is based on the flawed idea that neural networks might combine existing images. The actual process is different,\u201d wrote Andrey Usoltsev, Prisma Labs CEO in an email to\u00a0<em>ARTnews<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">He explained that while neural networks are trained on pre-existing images, once the training is done, the AI does not refer back to the vast dataset of images it was trained on. Rather, it has now learned how to mimic particular styles. According to Usoltsev, the AI has learned that a key characteristic of the category \u201cpainting\u201d is a signature, so it makes one up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\u201cOn this occasion, it mimics the paintings, the subset of the images that generally come with sign-offs. AI understands the sign-offs as an inherent style feature and imitates them,\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">Usoltsev<\/a>, who added that \u201cThe details pointed out don\u2019t use any existing language and do not represent the particular artist\u2019s signature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">According to Usoltsev, this mimicry is not theft as no particular artist had their signature distorted or, in Ipsum\u2019s word, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AtelierAuctionsg\">mangled<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">However, the issue may not be that any one artist is being stolen from, but that, en masse, their work might have been used to train the tech that threatens to replace them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source\uff1ahttps:\/\/www.artnews.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight, the photo-editing app LensaAI became massively successful when they rolled out their Magic Avatar feature, which uses\u00a0AI\u00a0technology and 10-20 photos from users to create AI assisted portraits in a variety of styles. 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