Artists push back against Barbie-like AI dolls with their own creations

Artists and creatives are pushing back against a recent trend using Artificial Intelligence (AI), so that people’s “starter pack” images can be generated as toys – which they say they say may be a risk of putting their livelihood at risk.

Since the beginning of April, thousands of people have uploaded their photos to generate themselves as dolls, despite warnings of damaging the environment, giving personal information and devaluation of creativity.

Nick Lavleli, who has created custom action figures for six years, told the BBC that he was worried that his work could be at risk after “AI images saturated social media”.

“People are ill with them,” he said. “This is an artistic beauty – AI -popular art decreases.”

Nick has created figures from artists such as comedians, film directors, and wisor and toyler children, who sell online for $ 250 (£ 188) on their evil joyful websites.

His success has become a brand of clothing and will soon be pursued by a physical shop in its hometown Manchester, New Hampshire.

But he is worried that the action figure commission may soon dry up, as well as his public perception of his work, imitating his passion from thousands of AI images.

This feeling has been shared by other creatives with the rise of the #Starterpacknoai movement, which has been used thousands of times, since the first has appeared thousands of times before spreading to X before spreading to X before spreading to X on Instagram for the first time.

After Patouret’s post, other people quickly joined the counter-trend, with artist Maria Picasso Picker saying that he “for entertainment, but also to participate as a statement”.

“While the AI ​​pieces looked almost the same, I was amazed at the diversity of ‘human’ actions,” he said.

“Plus, self-portraits added an additional layer, well, humanity.”

Maria, like many other artists, looks at the double risk of AI images, being fed on “theft ‘art”, and threatens intellectual property rights by reducing the possibility of finding new customers.

Working at Borders, France, Illustrator Dave Le Dassinx, said that some people in their industry had already lost contracts for AI design work.

He contributed to his starter pack because “many artists who use their real hands”, they were “tired” of the Holocaust of the AI-linked doll images.

Dave’s depiction had only one pencil and white paper sheet – he said “you all need to be an artist”.

“People usually forget about the technique around us, but we really do not need more than basic items to make something and be original,” he said.

Elli Debtonto, an artist living in BARLETA, Italy, agreed, digitally described the process of depicting his own starter pack as “careless and fun”.

“This is not right – not mine,” he said. “Art does not mean correct or looks innocent.”

And Illustrator and student AV Joyce said that creating his own artwork means to be able to reflect his personality during several hours of process instead of seconds.

“I think it’s so magical about it that you are seeing time and effort and their personality, all his experiences in pieces of art,” he said.

“With AI, it can also steal from artists and steal their work and their style, it just loses that touch of personality.”

Back to New Hampshire, Nick understood the rebellion from painters, but says he believes that there is use for AI.

“I don’t necessarily want to say that AI is bad when I know it can be a useful tool,” he said.

“I think we all used it with it.”

And in the investigation research, a global expert Henk van Esses has proved how useful it can be – but it would be safe to say that it does not believe it is in the starter pack.

He said, “It is like seeing a supercomputer how many hobobs fit in a sports direct mug, while the ‘two-do’ sits on the list to resolve climate change,” he said.

“Technically impressive? Certainly. But it is a technical equivalent to use large headron collider to heat your pot noodle.

“While everyone is busy in generating these digital counterparts of small things, they are really missing revolutionary goods AI – this is only useless to apply all energy to make that energy digital fluff when we can use it to solve the problems of the real world.”

And Nick remains positive.

“The musicians who receive my belongings, who are excited to keep a wicked joy in their hands, know that it is my artwork, they know that it is mine,” he said.

Similarly, DAV is worth human work.

Despite the rise of pre-made furniture, he says, “People still call cabinetmakers”.

“I hope I will be one of those artisans,” he said.

Nick, who says that he got his purpose in bringing “happiness” with his compositions, he said that he wanted to be hopeful about the future.

“I really hope that people are completely ill with AI action figures,” he said.

“But I hope that they are smart enough to understand that I am doing the computer-generated.”