Animation : AI extensions to Akira by Mike Boas

This is so interesting! What strikes me is that we'll likely see more and more advancements in editing and animation that are geared toward the vertical format. I've had a lot of frustrations in the past over the fact that horizontal videos are no longer the norm on most widely used platforms. It's forced me to change my process for filming specific content and it makes it harder to edit older footage and post it for friends and family.

MIKE! So great to see you, my friend! I'm so used to seeing your profile pic as an animated character, it's nice to finally put a face to the name LOL

Oh, the link isn't working for me for some odd reason :-/

On the topic though, I think if you give AI your information to learn from and then use it for your own purposes, meaning you're not violating anyone else's copyright by doing so, then I see no harm in it. It's when the AI is being fed information that you do not have the right to that it becomes harmful.

Everything after that is just a wounded ego. Unhappy that AI can make something beautiful and engaging in less time than you could? Sorry shrug That's why we built machines. To do something we can already do, but faster.

Although, it's worth noting that the time it takes to collect resources, choose an AI, have it learn from those resources, and output is still a lengthy process just because of the research. Quality Control (or in this case, confirmation of rights and unity of vision) will always be done by a human, and so will always be a little slow.

Thats strange, Karen "Kay" Ross, it was working earlier this week. I wonder if he was forced to take down the content.

Interestingly, I recently had a similar thing happen with Xtreme Saga. We paid a freelance artist, who is excellent and I continue to work with for the art of each chapter, to draw the cover image. I personally wrote out a detailed description of what I wanted and then did several drafts with him based on notes from me and other producers on the project. At my original request, he produced the image in 1920x1080px. I always have him, and pretty much every artist I work with for these sorts of projects, produce art in this size.

Months later, our web team needed a version of the image in 1920x640. Without my knowledge, instead of cropping the image and resizing to that needed size, they scaled the full image down to fit into that size and then used an AI generator to add on to the edges of the image to fill in the blanks. When I found out, I was immediately against it. Not only had they not notified me about using AI to generate an image that my name would appear on without my consent, but they also used AI to add on to an artist's work that he was also getting named credit for without his consent, or even notification. Not only is this ethically terrible, but, in my opinion, it also opens the company up to a lawsuit over misrepresentation, false advertising, and potentially damages if that artist's reputation is tarnished by passing off AI art as his.

Thankfully, they hadn't published the image before I got to see it, so I immediately had it replaced with a cropped version of the original that I created myself. I think it's a problem to use AI like this without the consent of the people who created/own the rights to a work. And I definitely think that it needs to be stated clearly to audiences when this sort of thing happens; and the original non-AI generated images should be shared alongside these sorts of things so that people can still be aware of the original artwork and the artists who created it.