Artificial intelligence threatens illustrators: “The fear that something could take away our work”

The artificial intelligence he is able to create illustrations on your own. Programs like Dall-e 2 – created by an Elon Musk company – They have opened up a world where the possibilities are endless. The user only has to write the concepts you want and, in a few seconds, the machine create multiple options to choose. This new paradigm makes illustrators tremble. And also regulation.

Some of these professionals even utter the word fear. This is the case of the illustrator and graphic designer Alba Stonesong. “The fear that something might take away our job when we are really educated, we have educated ourselves,” he explains.

The popularity of these tools is such that even magazines Atlantic Y cosmopolitan have already published their first cover created by artificial intelligence. Also Stephen King has shown his interest in these platforms on his Twitter account. She did so in a post in which she confessed to taking a test with a friend. “This was done by a bot from AI. I asked my technical friend Jake to put Pennywise on a bike and that came out, “he says on the aforementioned social network.

This revolution, in addition to bringing controversy, is accompanied by new questions about intellectual property. Cantalapiedra points out that the question should revolve around the originality of the compositions. “Can we consider it a unique, exclusive and original piece or, after all, is it always being nourished by what already exists?” he adds.

The tool uses millions of images existing. Hence, sometimes his creations are excessively similar to the originals. In this sense, the expert lawyer in Technological Law, David Ruiz Torres, assures that the creation of works of art by artificial intelligence puts regulation in check and points out that an effort is necessary on the part of the legislator. For now, in Europe, artists can request that their works not be included in these databases.