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So far, nearly 20 artists have registered with Ascendant Art.
One of the major criticisms of artificial intelligence-generated art is that art-producing companies are exploiting and profiting from existing works of art created by real-life artists who have been trained by computer programs. That’s what it means. 3 artists in January filed a class action lawsuit It accused an AI image generator of using artwork without consent against Midjourney, DeviantArt, which developed DreamUp, and Stability AI, the company that founded Stable Diffusion.
Ascendant Art, which launched this month, uses AI to generate avatar images and promises to pay royalties to artists who voluntarily submit artwork used to train the program. Nearly 20 artists have registered so far.
“Everybody thought it was terrible that AI art was just stealing from artists and threatening their lives,” CEO Mitch Randall said in an email. told Artnet News. “It was clear to us that artists should receive royalties from reproductions of their art. We wanted to show them how to do this right, which is why we decided to create this app.”
The company has so far used public domain images to train its AI. Ascendant Art also promises not to allow bots to scrape the site, so artists who license their work on Ascendant will not have their work stolen by other image generators.
Headquartered in Colorado and currently employing fewer than 10 people, Ascendant sells packs of avatars at prices ranging from 99 cents for a pack of 10 to $9.99 for a pack of 200.
If an avatar image ends up using more than one artist’s style, royalty cuts will be split between the artists depending on how much of each artist’s style was used in the final image. This is determined by AI (what else?).
“We definitely took the difficult path,” Randall said. “It took significantly longer than we expected and required a lot more technical development, legal and business work. We believe in what we do and we think we can be hugely successful, so if a lawsuit results in everyone else being shut down for copyright infringement, how can we survive? may be just us.”
Still, artists have already spoken out against the model in a statement alongside Molly Crabapple. highly allergenicand compare it with the Spotify model.
However, Randall refuted the comparison.
“Assuming 100,000 purchases per month and $420,000 in net revenue per month,” Randall said in an email. “Assuming there are 24 registered artists, each artist will receive an average of $4,375 per month. I’m just going to give you a low end example here, this is different from Spotify, the loyalty percentage we’ve burned in is huge in comparison, once one of our competitors paid 800 per day We were making millions of dollars.”
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