It could be a breakthrough for artists and creative professionals.
Liner.aiis a machine learning framework that makes training an AI on the user’s own data easy.
It could be an extremely useful tool and might even sidestep the massive ethical pitfalls.
Artist working on a computer.Filmstax / Getty Images
So why does it feel like cheating?
“By leveraging AI, creative professionals can enhance their productivity and expand their creative capabilities.
And, of course, this hasalready been used to clone and copy another artist’s workwithout their permission.
Drawing on digital tablet.primeimages / Getty Images
And this brings up our first point.
AI isundoubtedly useful but somewhat ethically challenged, shall we say.
The engines behind those “large language models” may still be trained onthat disputed data.
Creating cartoons.mediaphotos / Getty Images
It’s no more cheating than a photographer using Photoshop or a producer using a music studio.
However, most of us cannot create the pictures, stories, or songs necessary for the training.
If we could, then we wouldn’t need an AI, right?
Just like any other time-saving tool, a clone of yourself can be quite useful.
That desire grew stronger when I grew up and did some dull, dead-end jobs.
For creative professionals, that dream could soon come true.
Or a novelist who feeds in chapter outlines and gets first drafts back out.
They could even ask for plot suggestions.
“Art is no stranger to cloning.
At the basic level, recorded music is a form of cloning the musician, too!”
It immediately feels like cheating, but is it?
But like anything, it’s what you do with it that counts.
Plenty of rock and pop bands do exactly that without AI, as do some series novelists.
The comic book artist could try out way more layouts to develop new and exciting ideas.
It’s tempting, powerful, and ethically not too bad.
And it’s surely coming very, very soon.
