So I've been interested in using AI generation, specifically for backgrounds in stuff I'm planning, and I was wondering if anyone knew where the sites linked as recommendations in this jam sourced their data from? Like, I know that there was a big issue with artists having their work used to train AI without their permission, and I feel like it could be a really useful tool in art generation but I also don't want to be using someone's art without their consent. So, are the sites recommended for this jam getting their AI training data from artists that volunteered, or was it just kind of grabbed from the internet? I'm genuinely really interested in exploring using AI for areas that I'm not great in, but as an artist I don't want to be using anyone's art if they don't want me to, and it's hard to find details on where AI image sites trained their programs.
Rarely do any AI companies share their data sources. The way I think of it is...Don't ask for a specific artists' style or give it examples to copy. Don't give trademarked character names, and if you're worried about it, do a reverse image search using tineye or similar to verify it's not a close copy. If you're specific in your prompts, your response will be so specific that it's just yours. It's extremely unlikely someone will get the same thing if you're specific enough in the context of your conversation. For example, here's "A visual novel scene with a detective standing in the rain looking at a body on the ground in front of a hotel". That's quite specific, but you can get far more specific to be more...thematic. I would recommend that you work on putting your story in and make whatever program you're using familiar. Then try to get images that match your story with really long prompts that make it hard to be copies of something already out there.