"Magnificent Brand" painter complains about the proliferation of AI: my work has been cited more often than Picasso.

CTOnews.com Greg Rutkowski, a Polish digital artist whose works have been used in well-known games such as "Dragons and Dungeons" and "Magic," told BBC recently: "My work is more used in AI than Picasso."

PixabayGreg says his work has been cited more than 400,000 times by generative AI tools since September 2022 without his consent. When he checked citations, he found that his name was mentioned more often than Picasso or Leonardo da Vinci.

Generative AI sites such as Midjourney, Dall.E, NightCafe and Stable Diffusion can create new AI-generated works based on user prompts in seconds. These sites do deep learning by scraping billions of existing images from the internet, but artists complain that these are often done without their consent.

Greg said: "Within the first month of my discovery, I realized that it would obviously affect my career and that I would not be able to identify and find my work on the Internet. These images are linked to my name, but not my creation, so this will confuse people looking for my work. "

Greg added: "Everything we've done over the years has been taken away by AI so easily. It's really hard to say whether this will change the industry so much that human artists will be eliminated altogether. I think there's a huge question mark over my job and my future. "

CTOnews.com previously reported that some domestic and foreign game companies have begun to try to replace the work of original artists with AI, and some game companies have even cut half of the original artists.