AI technologies use large amounts of images from the internet, including copyrighted materials, without authors' consent and compensation.
Hanna Albrektson, author, illustrator, and writer of more than fifteen children's books, stated that in the last two years, the number of orders has sharply decreased. Primarily, commercial projects for magazines, advertising, and packaging have disappeared. According to her, companies increasingly use artificial intelligence to create images, involving artists only in the final stages.
"Why should we adapt to artificial intelligence? Artificial intelligence should adapt to us. When images can be created easily, the value of manual labor decreases. This leads to the emergence of two parallel worlds – like 'fast food' and home-cooked meals, the 'human' world and the 'artificial intelligence' world," emphasized H. Albrektson.
According to a survey conducted by the Swedish Illustrators' Union, 42 percent of its members have already lost their jobs or income due to artificial intelligence, whereas two years ago this figure was 30 percent. The union's leadership stated that artificial intelligence is radically changing the industry, increasing pressure on prices and raising the risk of copyright infringement. It calls for legislative changes, including licensing images used for AI training and mandatory labeling of generated content.
Comic artists also express serious concerns. According to them, AI technologies are based on stealing others' works and already affect the increasingly unstable labor market. They warn that uniqueness in art may disappear in the future, and young artists will be deprived of the opportunity to learn and develop without the influence of algorithms./publika