Tech worker used AI to create children’s book, making authors and artists mad

[milotic2]

A tech worker is selling a children's book he made using AI. Professional illustrators are pissed. https://t.co/7SRj7ntQej
- BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) December 14, 2022
Ammaar Reshi, working at fintech company Brex, as design manager. Reshi began tinkering with AI tools and had the idea to make a book for kids, using AI. Using ChatGPT to create

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[thispaintedlife]

people have been so dramatic about chatGPT, he said the book was possible not that it was any good!! lmao

[colossusx]

you should want your work to be...good? especially if it's for sale? what?

[pinkspade]

a lot of commercial artists sell things they know aren't good but are profitable lol

[colossusx]

what’s your point?

[ahkna]

Because it's bad. The art is literally terrifying if you look at it for more than half a second. Extra eyes, nostrils, ears, fingers.

[lunatic_the_7th]

Can we please stop acting like AI art is good? Some of the visuals people make look nice for a few seconds, but as soon as you look closely it's always bad. And ChatGPT is handy for technical stuff like troubleshooting code (ty for rewriting pipelines for me, robot friend!) or getting help with understanding concepts, but the creative output from it is always bland as hell.

Ethics from the data collection aside, it's just not good.

That being said, sending someone death threats or encouraging suicide over it is absolutely insane.

[ahkna]

Some of it looks so terrifying. It looks fine from far away but when you look closer, it's like looking at body horror.

[colossusx]

AI art is uncanny valley and makes me incredibly uncomfortable honestly

[melancolour]

omg can I just learn to command chatgpt to do the things I think I want to do with python???

[who_love]

That book looks ugly as fuck.
I follow a lot of artist/illustrators on twitter and they all seems so sad rn. Support real artists!!

[takarai_karin]

If the prompter just put this up on AO3 it would’ve been fine. It’s basically fanfic/fanart just based on kajillion other things instead of one thing and you’re just the prompt provider.