Digital Art is on the Rise, But is it Stealing?

Digital Artists' new plight has been foreshadowed by the changes to the Music and Television Markets

Image available to author via unique access to Midjourney; the author assumes responsibility for the authenticity.

Over the past few weeks, my social media feed has been awash with AI-Generated Art. Whether it’s Open AI’s Dall-E-2, Midjourney, or Craiyon, people out there are shucking out their $0.10 — $0.12 (approximate) per image and creating pictures to meet their particular sensibilities.

Prompts From Top Left to Bottom Right — Egyptian god Anubis in a modern day hospital ward, cinematic , hyperrealism , corporate photograph, wide-angle, gold, black, and red —
a close-up oil painting of a destitute artist , bright-colors ::futurism —
impressionism, highly detailed, car accident with a car on fire ::crowd ::vibrant ::new york city —
a pig looking into a mirror putting on makeup shot from behind in a scene from pixar’s toy story — Images available to author via unique access to Midjourney and Dall-E-2; the author assumes responsibility for the authenticity.

My Saturday Afternoon with Midjourney AI — Computer Generated Images

I am one of those people! I have spent countless hours creating work in the two programs, and because my Twitter feed is searching over the artists I follow, I’ve been privy to a dark side of the world.