I often want to include an image in my posts to give a sense of a
situation. A photo communicates the most, but sometimes that's too
much: some participants would rather remain anonymous. A friend
suggested running pictures through an AI model to convert them into a
Studio
Ghibli-style cartoon, as was briefly a fad a few months ago:
The model is making quite large changes, aside from just converting to
a cartoon, including:
Moving people around
Changing posture
Substituting clothing
Combining multiple people into one
Changing races
Giving people extra hands
For my purposes, however, this is helpful, since I'm trying to
illustrate the general feeling of the situation and an overly faithful
cartoon could communicate identity too well.
I know that many of my friends are strongly opposed to AI-generated
art, primarily for its effect on human artists. While I have mixed
thoughts that I may try to write up at some point, I think this sort
of usage isn't much of a grey area: I would previously have just left
off the image. There isn't really a situation where I would have
commissioned art for one of these posts.
My answer to that question would not quite be a categorical yes or no. For example, there’s a difference between a manually taken selfie and a complete raw security camera feed.
But I do agree this is straying from the original topic a bit. Since the top-post use case is explicitly one where you’ve already decided you’re not comfortable posting the original photo publicly, I feel like the general acceptability of posting photos is mostly irrelevant here? I think a more on-point justification would be talking about why it’s more acceptable for an AI to see the original photo than for your general audience to see that same photo.
(To be clear I don’t personally have a major problem with this practice, at least as you’ve applied it so far, although I also don’t think it’s really added or subtracted much from my enjoyment or understanding of your posts so far. Mostly I just don’t find this particular justification to be convincing.)
I often want to include an image in my posts to give a sense of a situation. A photo communicates the most, but sometimes that's too much: some participants would rather remain anonymous. A friend suggested running pictures through an AI model to convert them into a Studio Ghibli-style cartoon, as was briefly a fad a few months ago:
House Party Dances
Letting Kids Be OutsideThe model is making quite large changes, aside from just converting to a cartoon, including:
For my purposes, however, this is helpful, since I'm trying to illustrate the general feeling of the situation and an overly faithful cartoon could communicate identity too well.
I know that many of my friends are strongly opposed to AI-generated art, primarily for its effect on human artists. While I have mixed thoughts that I may try to write up at some point, I think this sort of usage isn't much of a grey area: I would previously have just left off the image. There isn't really a situation where I would have commissioned art for one of these posts.
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