• jsomae@lemmy.ml
    49·
    7 months ago

    TIL that there exist people who aren’t bothered by obnoxious watermarks superimposed on an image. I find them aggravating, and I’m not the only one – That’s shutterstock’s entire business model.

    AI is already making people’s lives worse. Let’s not make human art harder to enjoy in a fruitless effort to resist it. Instead, let’s solve the root of the problem.

    • Coskii
      9·
      7 months ago

      It’s not that I prefer having images occluded by anything, signatures, text boxes, or whatever… But when it comes to online protections for someone’s work, hell yeah put that shit on there.

      The best part is that I’ve been saying this well before generative AI was mainstream. Artists who put their work on public domains who don’t want it getting into the hands of others shouldn’t have an issue with signing the hell out of the image. They can of course add it before uploading and not to the original.

      Would it be amazing if people properly lisenced others work and/or requested permission to use it? Absolutely. That’s just not the world we live in.

      • Boy of Soy@lemmy.world
        9·
        7 months ago

        This still seems like a crazy take to me. Yeah, putting a giant watermark on a piece of art protects it from theft, but it also destroys the artwork.

    • LWD@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 months ago

      The root of the problem needs to be solved within the next negative six months, and the millionaires pushing/operating it sure don’t seem interested.