Artist commission website Skeb is fighting AI with AI, with the introduction of its own AI that detects AI-generated illustrations, a move that will surely save manhours for the company that was using staff to visually check up until now.
Skeb CEO Kazunari Kida shared a blog post discussing the company’s stance on AI and the introduction of its new AI that detects AI-generated data:
- We believe that AI is not a technology that replaces creators but rather a technology that could accelerate their creative activities in the future.
- Since the start of the service in 2018, Skeb has always accepted only illustrations and manga drawn directly by creators as sold commodities under the “illustration” genre, and it is a violation of our policy to use data that AI fully or partially generates. The restriction is intended to prevent fraudulent use of the service, including the conversion of stolen credit cards into cash (chargeback fraud) and so on. We fight fraud every day at Skeb. Reprinted image detection AI (Google Cloud Vision API) was effective against fraudulent attempts to cash stolen credit cards using reprinted images that already exist on the Internet, but since illustration generation AI is unique data, it can be generated in large quantities, so we believe that further measures will be necessary.
- According to Japanese laws and regulations, in light of the type and purpose of use of the work and its utilization, information analysis is prohibited so long as the interests of the copyright holder are not harmed.
- Since its start in 2018, Skeb has actively adopted AI, including the detection of NSFW content (Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services), detection of reproduced images (Google Cloud Vision API), and translation of request text (DeepL). All of these AI learn from other people’s copyrighted works without permission, but we believe that they are legal because they do not unfairly harm the interests of copyright holders.
- Among some of the AI-generated illustrations, there’s the “Unlicensed AI that generates illustrations that imitate the style of a specific illustration” and “AI that generates similar illustrations by loading arbitrary illustrations,” which we do believe have a risk of bringing unfair harm to the copyright holders.
- Skeb has signed a contract with the American AI company, Hive, and today, March 1, 2023, we’ve introduced an AI to detect AI-generated data.
- Skeb oversees the transactions of over 100,000 illustrations per month, but unfortunately, we detect dozens of AI-generated data each month, and until now, our staff has visually checked them.
- In some cases, we may ask creators about the production process or check the data they are working on to evaluate whether there are any possibilities of unfair use of transactions. We will enforce warnings, cancellation of applicable transactions, and permanent suspension of new requests for more severe cases.
In other recent news, contrary to Western credit card companies that block payment options for NSFW content, Japanese credit card company JCB has pushed towards allowing credit card payments for NSFW requests on Skeb.
The war against AI continues. The real reason it’s getting so much attention is because elites and big media and business (not to mention the ideological interests) are terrified as f♥♥k about losing content control. Right now if someone wants to create art, they have to go through several media and business controlled gates if they want it to be and stay available. On top of that, a large part of big social justice’s power revolves around policing and dictating content. Same with old religious and conservative moralists. (they are still around, just not nearly as powerful) This kind of thing is a nightmare all parties mentioned.
To make matters even worse, government is now buying into the hype and fearmongering and talking about restrictions. The goal is to make sure this kind of stuff is locked down and in business and big organization’s hands only. This especially applies to porn and nudity.. It seems like only a matter of time before black boxes will be mandatory.. making open source de-facto illegal.
It’s the elites and big business who are pouring massive amounts of money into the technology.
religion is its own beast. but its certainly something that scares the big media producers.
f♥♥k out of here victimized c♥♥t.
There’s no war on AI, and certainly not from the big corporate or the government despite they could have legally shut down AI for their ability to generate photorealistic pedophilic imagery. They could have shut down AIshit all the way back when it could deepfake porn of celebrities and clone voices of politicians that could fake speeches.
You’re just mad people are taking measurements for AIshit frauds to not overtake art platforms
“Right now if someone wants to create art, they have to go through several media and business controlled gates if they want it to be and stay available”
lolwut?
Create your art, create and host your own website, sell through it directly. This is how it was done before most of you kids were born, and many of them still exist selling far lewder things than the weak-ass s♥♥t japs make.
the wat to get rid of ai since it can be used to expose hir crimes
contrary even with all the media attention spruning it, AI gets hardly any notice at all, utterly failing despite all the billion thrown on it
Shut the f♥♥k up thief! You will never be an artist, just a fraud who steal the labor of real artist to play pretend
I mean, you can already tell, but this will cut down on costs. There’s no place for AI imagery on skeb, just generate your own for free.
f♥♥k Skeb, using AI to detect woke art would have been better. Have you seen all the disgusting low quality fur fag art or n♥♥♥♥r loving art? Pure cancer is what it is.
perfect for cancerous little shitposters like you!
get to your daily fap, manchild!
said by biggest manchild outhere that brainwashed by islime to never get over 5yrs old grown mental wise
wat
>Skeb has signed a contract with the American AI company
oh no
I wonder if it can detect wokeness in illustrations
If ‘child safety’ software can block pictures if it interprets too much skin is being shown in an image, then naturally it can also determine the color hues of that skin as well.
From there you just create an algorithm that prioritises colors between certain ranges and then sell the software to your woke/anti-woke audience who are then free to discriminate against whatever colored individuals they see fit.
There’s so few woke artist it wouldn’t be worth the trouble.
seems no one can detect your shitty and obsessive personality
no wonder why you’re so miserable
You fucking moron. If no-one can detect his “shitty & obsessive personality”, then that means he has hidden this personality quirk well, has loads of friends, and is the exact opposite of miserable.
God-damned retard.
>loads of friends
>goes on a shitty tabloid website to troll about his boogyman
right…
Poor artists being replaced by machines…and all human creativity will be lost…and all those brilliant artists starving in the streets.
You don’t need to be very smart to understand, the function of this crap is to discover copyrights and charge for them.
It has nothing to do with creativity and A.I it’s more about finding who copied and who will receive a lawsuit.
When an American company enters history, you can expect copyright and lawsuits to roll out.
blatant disregard behind the effort put behind art and sancucks just want to drag every well off person with them down their smelly fap hole
This is just gonna turn into a retarded arms race as the AI are trained to make pictures capable of fooling the AI detector and vice versa.
A “retarded arms race”! I love it! wwww
All this AI art hate is being generated by sore loser artists and their retarded followers who can’t think for themselves. f♥♥k all of them, most artists of today only copy and steal s♥♥t anyway.
I see why a lot of people hate AI, but personally, as it improves in quality I think it may be a good thing somewhat. characters and other s♥♥t that I like that have nearly zero artists ever drawing them now have tons of art of them of now decent to great quality, and I feel it will only improve in the future. it should never replace a real artist, sure, but if you hate it that much, all you have to do is filter it out.
A lot of the hate and attacks are because of non AI artists. They are behind all this hate for it. Fucking sore losers is what they are. Hypocrites because most of their art are from actual IP’s that are not their own.