Runway Gen 3 Will Change How We Curate Art Posts

You've heard how controversial generated AI images split the art community. Introducing Runway Gen 3 where users can generate videos based on text prompts and adjust settings according to the user's desired results. It's generated AI art but in video format and I saw a tweet that captures the possible difficulties in verifying content. I encourage you to see the video below

https://x.com/anukaakash/status/1806854002640081345

An artist who spent some time learning the fundamentals may spot some errors in the rendering of the image but for average people who aren't really into the specifics about art, they'll probably just click like or ignore. It took me a few more playbacks to spot where AI went wrong with the image (I know the whole video is itself an AI generated product) because I want to exercise some critical thinking on curating the content.

Here on Hive, everyone who has an account and HP can curate and is a "curator". But not every curator is an artist or has some good foundation with art, so imagine a scenario where malicious accounts are setup to fake their art identity and go through different lengths just to sell a convincing artist profile. It sounds absurd to go through this process but there's money involved in trying. There are Patreon accounts of AI bros making money from generated images and some artist profiles are purposely faking their art claiming it's not AI.

AI art popularity has split the online art community to the point where some artists are accused of AI art when their art has nothing to do with AI. The witch hunts are real and it's easy to for anyone to fall victim to random strangers accusing something made with AI when it isn't.

I'm not on team AI or anti-AI art as I've already come to accept the fact that it's here to stay and evolve despite community push back. However, I think the art community can still be find some common ground where artists are free to enjoy what form of "art" they want to produce or consume. The current dramas that pass by my X feed include random stranger sparking drama calling out random artist for suspected AI work, or random artists upset their profile gets targeted by strangers accusing them of AI, or random account admits they have been using generated images or steals works from other artists to feed their learning machine, or random artists traces AI art but does not disclose their works are influenced by AI art, and the list goes on.

I've seen other Hivers post their AI art content and that's fine because I usually have a "you do you" attitude but what ticks me off sometimes is the lack of transparency when artists fail to disclose they traced over their work from a generated image or just refuse to admit it's AI generated content. It's just difficult to get around blatant dishonesty. There's still a market for people enjoying generated images but to purposely lie about being non-AI to capture value from patrons that aren't into AI is just scummy. Like I said, you do you but be open about your content and process.

While AI hasn't reached a point where we can't distinguish between a common art mistake artists make with drawing hands versus poor AI rendering of hands, there may be a point when it's already enough to fool most people except those that trained their eyes.

I used to be post process shots of my work just to prove I made them and this was 2018 where people were creating fake art accounts for some petty votes on the legacy chain. Now I shifted to just post little of the process and just go straight to the end output because fuck it, it's stressing to convince people online that you're real about what you do.

Now in comes new tech where it gets more complicated for real artists that have nothing to do with AI protect their reputation. For those established artists that have been around before the AI boom, they got their reputation to bank on but for beginner artists who have yet to make a name, the competition just got more difficult as AI art accounts tend to grow in follower count because normies don't really have the meticulous eye to screen what is AI and not unless they know exactly what they are supporting.

Thanks for your time.