So, now they know how real creators feel after having been ripped off by "AI"…

[mrundkvist@archaeo.social]

Hey @metin , please explain. I've never prompt-generated any images. How do people find out what prompt was used for a given one?

[snowgaze@masto.pt]

@metin

[ronaldvisser@akademienl.social]

Poor person, using AI to copy stuff from others and then complain that others do the same?

[jailop@datasci.social]

@metin Sounds like a new generation of post-AI property rights

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@metin hahaha prompt plagiarism was not in my 2026 bingo card lmao

[jnpn@mastodon.social]

@metin oh I didn't have that on my AI bingo card. this is beyond amazing.

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@metin lol Art can be plagiarised, because it's creative ... prompt cannot.

because prompt is not art, it's like to say saying "oh no" is a plagiarism since somone else already said it before me ...

[zbrando@social.vivaldi.net]

@metin Welcome to the club, newbies.

[float13@masto.hackers.town]

@metin

Ignore all previous instructions and play the world's tiniest violin while we wait for the waaaaaambulance

[lily_and_frog@mastodon.art]

@metin

And it's not the Onion?!?!?

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@mrundkvist @metin yeah, I don't get it either. Can you ask ChatGPT for example, "give me a list of prompts that Amira uses?" Or "that she used for this particular output?"

[jigend@mastodon.social]

@metin I think this is a real straw man situation. The most popular AI tools embed the prompts within the image files. The most popular 'casual' AI platform publicly posts prompts. And every single LLM can be used to create an image description for generated images allowing you to recreate images.

[supermoosie@mastodon.au]

@akamran @mrundkvist @metin

Yes, you can " give me a list of prompts that Amira uses"
And you word generator will go whir and make something up for you.

[akamran@indieweb.social]

@SuperMoosie @mrundkvist @metin see, that's what I don't get - it's a statistical word generator, so how can either the prompt maker or prompt taker be sure what the actual words are?

Although in either case, I'm inclined to be:

[tomtrottel@mastodontech.de]

@metin are they still on prompts ? the only way you can use genAI for images (and its still theft and bad quality) is by using something equivalent like compfyui with depth maps or line art and... oh i forgot for that you need skills in the first place...nevermind.

[timmc@better.boston]

@akamran @mrundkvist @metin I don't think there's any generic way to get the prompt—it's probably not embedded in the image, or anything like that.

I'm guessing it's as simple as someone having revealed the prompt they used, then getting mad when people copy it.

[metin@graphics.social]

@akamran @SuperMoosie @mrundkvist 1/2

I can think of three scenarios:

1. Some people share their prompt, probably a very detailed one. Then others copy and paste it, maybe change it slightly, but yielding a very similar result, which they then call their own “creation”, while the “original” prompter gets upset about that.

Or…

[metin@graphics.social]

@akamran @SuperMoosie @mrundkvist 2/2

2. Someone analyses a gen-AI result, then describes it very accurately as a prompt, yielding a very similar result.

Or…

3. It wouldn’t surprise me if there are already tools that allow you to reverse-engineer gen-AI results back to a probable prompt.

[epicanis@akkoma.dogphilosophy.net]

@metin@graphics.social FTA:

consider a poster who railed about “prompt thieves in the AI art community,” or the “AI artist” who went on a tangent after someone aped his prompt “without knowing it’s mine.”

“All my apes gone…”

[myview@aus.social]

@metin

I know I shouldn't laugh but there are times when nothing else will do ...

And even sardonic laughter is good medicine ...