The removal of Rutkowski's style from Stable Diffusion 2.0 led to the creation of LoRa, a model trained to emulate specific art styles, including Rutkowski's. This move sparked controversy, with some arguing it was unethical to mimic an artist's style without their consent. Lykon, the creator of the first customized SDXL model, justified the move, stating that an accurate immortal depiction of Rutkowski's style is in everyone's best interest.
Key takeaways:
- Digital artist Greg Rutkowski, known for his vivid, surreal style, has become the most invoked keyword used by AI artists looking to mimic a specific artistic style, despite his opposition to AI-generated art.
- Stability AI, creators of the popular AI image generator Stable Diffusion, removed Rutkowski's work from their dataset in response to his opposition. However, the open-source community created a tool to mimic his style against his wishes.
- Stable Diffusion 2.0 removed the ability to emulate specific artists' styles, causing discontent among users and making the previous version, Stable Diffusion v1.5, the preferred choice for Open Source Text to Image Generators.
- A small, specific model called LoRa, trained to emulate specific things like art styles, was used to recreate Rutkowski's style, sparking controversy in the art community over the ethics of using someone's style without their consent.