RIP Afremov
Sep. 11th, 2024 09:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magicofthepiper Uhg.... I encountered what is claimed to be the Afremov Family Estate on Twitter. I'm very sorry that Leonid Afremov has died. He work was an iconic part of the Deviantart marketplace.
But I find it really disgusting that this account is selling AI generated work as if he painted them.
This example isn't quite so bad because at least they're upfront in this post that it's AI generated and "painted" by the studio. But not all the work posted to the account seem to make that difference clear.
It also has me thinking upon the idea that family holds the claim of intellectual property decades after the notable member has passed. In this case, they don't seem to using their rights to protect their father's work and legacy, but instead are using their exclusive right to profit from the name. Feeding his work in AI art programs will also likely further muddle the mess if other individuals have access to the same data-set
. Or perhaps ironically, maybe different programs that illegally mined his art can more accurately mimic his style because it's not fed by work by other studio artists under his name.
But I find it really disgusting that this account is selling AI generated work as if he painted them.
This example isn't quite so bad because at least they're upfront in this post that it's AI generated and "painted" by the studio. But not all the work posted to the account seem to make that difference clear.
It also has me thinking upon the idea that family holds the claim of intellectual property decades after the notable member has passed. In this case, they don't seem to using their rights to protect their father's work and legacy, but instead are using their exclusive right to profit from the name. Feeding his work in AI art programs will also likely further muddle the mess if other individuals have access to the same data-set
. Or perhaps ironically, maybe different programs that illegally mined his art can more accurately mimic his style because it's not fed by work by other studio artists under his name.
