On January 31, […] Netflix has released an experimental animated short titled The Dog and the Boy which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create all of its backgrounds. This use of image-generating AI is to the detriment of the future of artists.
The short film has also caused controversy among animation artists. Its director defends the use of AI, citing the lack of staff […]. “There is absolutely no labor shortage in animation… What we can observe […]it’s the continued casualization of work,” notes Elena Altheman, of The Platform Lab research group at Concordia University.
Image generators […] are only able to create by sampling and combining photos from their banks of millions of images taken from the Internet. Images often acquired and used without any consideration for the copyrights that protected them and without the consent of the artists who created them. In other words, this practice amounts to reformulating a text to pass it off as one’s own dissertation and thus violates the intellectual property of others.
Taken as a whole, it’s a technology that threatens the future of artists while being unable to create without them.
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