Don’t Paint What You See | Links and Further Reading
Across this three-part series, I explore painting from AI-generated imagery, responses from the art community, and the wider questions facing creative industries.
As promised in the second video, here are some useful starting points if you’d like to explore further...
AI training data: origins, consent and provenance
Ed Newton-Rex: How AI models steal creative work—and what to do about it
https://www.ted.com/talks/ed_newton_rex_how_ai_models_steal_creative_work_and_what_to_do_about_it
2024 TED talk about creative work, AI training, permission and licensing.Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen: Excavating AI
https://excavating.ai/
An exploration of where training images come from and how they are labelled.Data Provenance Initiative
https://www.dataprovenance.org/
Research tracing the origins and permissions of AI training material.
Protecting your artwork online
What is Glaze?
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/what-is-glaze.html
A tool designed to make an artist’s style harder for AI to imitate.Glaze FAQ
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/faq.html
Practical questions about using Glaze and understanding its limitations.
AI and the creative industries in Australia
Creative Australia: Generative AI and Creative Work
https://creative.gov.au/creative-australia-principles-generative-artificial-intelligence-and-creative-work
Guidance and principles from Australia’s national arts body.
Australian copyright and AI
Arts Law: Artificial Intelligence and Copyright
https://www.artslaw.com.au/information-sheet/artificial-intelligence-ai-and-copyright/
An Australian guide to permission, AI training and copyright in work made using AI.Arts Law’s AI and Copyright information session
https://www.artslaw.com.au/audio/information-session-artificial-intelligence-ai-and-copyright/
Dr Louise Buckingham talks through the issues for artists and creators.Australian Society of Authors: AI Guidance for Creators
https://www.asauthors.org.au/artificial-intelligence-guidelines-for-creators/
Practical guidance for authors and illustrators, covering contracts, uploading work to AI tools, disclosure and publishing AI-assisted work.
Generative AI
Content Authenticity Initiative
https://contentauthenticity.org
An initiative promoting Content Credentials, which can record information about digital content’s origin and editing history
Adobe
Adobe: its approach to training Firefly
https://www.adobe.com/au/ai/overview/firefly/gen-ai-approach.html
Adobe’s explanation of the training material and safeguards used for its own Firefly models.Adobe: partner models available within its products
https://helpx.adobe.com/au/creative-cloud/apps/generative-ai/non-adobe-models-in-adobe-products.html
Explains which other companies’ models are available through Adobe products, whose training practices may differ from Adobe’s own.