The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to significant advancements in image generation capabilities, but it also raises concerns over copyright and ethics. OpenAI's introduction of watermarks on its image-generation tool is a step towards addressing these issues. However, users have found ways to circumvent this measure by appending generic camera filenames to input prompts, resulting in AI-generated images that appear indistinguishable from real photos.
This development has put pressure on companies like OpenAI, which is struggling to meet the heavy demand for its Ghibli-style AI art feature. CEO Sam Altman has warned of capacity challenges and has even appealed to users with high GPU capacity to help alleviate the issue. In response, OpenAI is working aggressively to address technical difficulties that arose from the increased demand.
Meanwhile, Midjourney's new version of its generative AI service produces highly realistic digital images, further blurring the line between AI-generated and real photos. This trend highlights the rapid progress being made in the field of AI image generation, but also raises concerns over copyright and ethics.
As OpenAI prepares to retire its GPT-4 model and replace it with a new multimodal model, it is clear that the demand for AI-generated images will only continue to grow.