To sum it up: Ai art is a great and cool tool to use on your products, however, AI generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion (especially SD, because the creator's been dehumanising artists non-stop) is considered unethical, because it scrapes data from non-consenting artists. These artists can recognise their artwork in the generative work.

Which brings into question the ethical nature of AI, and how it works. As more information pools out, we're noticing companies like Shutterstock and Getty images attempting to make a stand and introduce ethical AI generative works, where you use their enclosed tools that uses data from consenting stock image makers, that also get a cut of every sale.

As a professional illustrator myself with very well known and admired friends who are affected and find their works in generators, we should consider putting in restrictions commercialised non-ethical AI as part of the rules in our events.

At the moment, the law in regards to AI is in its infancy. The rulebooks in court and Intellectual property is written without this new technology in mind. History is being made, and none of it right now, is debatable as people take a stand to fight back against rampant non-consented data scraping.

When it comes to the age of AI, it's the wild west right now, but we can take small steps forward by encouraging the use of ethical AI art generators.

Well said. Agree 100%