PSA: My cafe's AI art print got me flagged by a local artist collective

I went to a new coffee shop in Portland last week called Brew & Frame. They had this huge AI generated landscape of Mount Hood on the wall behind the counter. I asked the barista who made it and she said they used some software themselves. A few days later a local artist walked in and started yelling that it was stealing from their style. Now I'm wondering - if the cafe paid for the AI tool and made something original, is that still unethical? Or does the artist have a point about it ripping off their years of work? What do you all think about where the line is for small businesses?

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the_fiona26d ago

Slapping your name on AI art is kinda weak.

lily_singh226d agoMost Upvoted

Had a guy in my dnd group try to pass off AI generated character portraits as his own paintings. Got real quiet when I asked what brushes he used. The hands were all wrong, six fingers on one character.