The artists repel the AI ​​type barbie dolls with their own creations

Artists and creatives repel against a recent trend using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images of “starter pack” of people and toys – which, they say, can be in danger of risking their livelihoods.

Since the beginning of April, thousands of people have downloaded their photos Generate images of themselves like dollsDespite warnings to damage the environment, give personal information and devalue creativity.

Nick Lavallee, which made personalized action figures for six yearstold the BBC that he feared that his work is at risk after “images of saturated AI on social networks”.

“People are fed up,” he said. “It is an artistic aesthetic – art generated by AI decreases this.”

Nick made figures for – and for – actors, directors and artists such as Weezer and Tyler Childers, who sell up to $ 250 (£ 188) online on his Wicked Joyful website.

His success has led to a clothing brand and will soon be followed by a physical shop in his hometown of Manchester, New Hampshire.

But he is worried about the action commissions could soon dry, as well as the perception of the public of his work, thousands of images of AI imitating his passion.

The feeling was shared by other creatives with the rise in the #StarterPacknoai movement, which was used thousands of times since its first appearance on Instagram in early April before spreading to X shortly after.

After the Patouret post, others quickly joined the counter-temperature, with the artist Maria Picassó Pique saying that she had chosen to participate “for pleasure, but also as a declaration”.

“While the pieces of AI all seemed the same thing, I was surprised by the variety of” human “works,” she said.

“In addition, self -portraits have added an additional layer of humanity.”

Maria, like many other artists, sees the double risk of IA images threatening intellectual property rights by being “fed by” stolen “art and the possibility of reducing it with new customers.

The illustrator DAV Le drawine, working in Bordeaux, in France, said that some in his industry had already lost contracts for the design work of the AI.

He contributed his start -up pack because “like many artists who use their real hands”, he was “tired” from the deluge of doll images generated by AI.

DAV’s illustration presented only one pencil and a sheet of white paper – the tools which, according to him, are “everything you need to start being an artist”.

“People usually forget it because of the technology around us, but we really don’t need more than basic things to create something and be original,” he said.

Eli Dibitonto, an artist living in Barletta, Italy, accepted, describing the digital illustration process of his own start -up pack as “carefree and fun”.

“It should not be perfect-mine is not,” he said. “Art is not supposed to be perfect or look impeccable.”

And the illustrator and student Evie Joyce said that creating his own work of art meant being able to think about what to think about his personality during a process of several hours, rather than seconds.

“I think what is so magical is that you see people putting time and efforts and their personality, all their experiences, in works of art,” she said.

“With AI, he can even steal artists and steal their work and style, he just loses this touch of personality.”

Back in New Hampshire, Nick understands the rebellion of illustrators, but says he thinks he is used for AI.

“I don’t necessarily want to say that AI is bad when I know it could be a useful tool,” he said.

“I think we all experienced it.”

And Henk Van Ess, a global expert in the use of AI in the search for investigation, has proven how useful it can be – but it would be prudent to say that it does not believe that it resides in the start -up packs.

“It’s like watching a supercomputer to calculate the number of hobnobs that are part of a direct sports cup, while solving climate change is on the list of” tasks “,” he said.

“Technically impressive? Of course. But it is the technological equivalent of the use of the great collision of Hadrons to heat your noodles in pots.

“While everyone is busy generating these digital equivalents of small speeches, the revolutionary stuff is missing that AI can do – it is just to waste all this energy in the creation of digital fluffer when we can use it to solve real problems.”

And Nick remains positive.

“The musicians who get my things, who are delighted to hold a joyful villain in their hands, they know that it is my work, they know that it is mine,” he said.

Likewise, Dav has confidence in the value of human work.

Despite the rise in prefabricated furniture, he says: “People always call the cupboards”.

“I hope I will be one of these craftsmen,” he said.

Nick, who says he found his goal “by bringing people to people” with his creations, said that he wanted in the same way to keep hope in the future.

“I really hope people are totally fed up with AI action figures,” he said.

“But I hope they are intelligent enough to understand the difference in something I do in relation to what is generated by computer.”