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> many artists are worried about their livelihood while a multi-billion dollar company is working towards making them obsolete often using their own work. You
by lbotos 4y ago
> many artists are worried about their livelihood while a multi-billion dollar company is working towards making them obsolete often using their own work.
You do realize that most commercial art is "art for hire" and in this very story some of the examples trained were not owned by the artist.
Multi-billion dollar companies already do this. Hire artist to draw Corporate IP. Corp owns and can do whatever they want with it. Maybe they hire that artist again. Maybe they hire someone else and they share the work in a reference folder.
- allturtles 4y agoBut now they (maybe) get to skip the "hire arist" step. Which, from the point-of-view of the artists, is the most important part.
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoThe distinction I think is that the multi-billion dollar company working towards making artists obsolete by using their own work didn't pay any of these artists for that IP. At least with hiring an artist to draw corporate IP, an artist has to relinquish their rights to that work explicitly and are paid for those rights.