The AI lab waging a guerrilla war over exploitative AI

On the call, artists shared details of how they had been hurt by the generative AI boom, which was then brand new. At that moment, AI was suddenly everywhere. The tech community was buzzing over image-generating AI models, such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and OpenAI's DALL-E 2, which could follow simple word prompts to depict fantasylands or whimsical chairs made of avocados. But these artists saw this technological wonder as a new kind of theft. They felt the models were effectively stealing and replacing their work.