Hackers infected a popular tool used for making AI-generated art for Stable Diffusion this week. The exploit targeted the ComfyUI tool which provides an easier way for users to prompt Stable Diffusion’s AI.

AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged

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ComfyUI is freely available via GitHub. This also makes it easy for developers to create extensions to the tool. Being freely available on GitHub also makes it easier for hackers to create exploits.

The ComfyUI_LLMVISION extension was compromised by the hacking group, NULLBULGE GROUP.

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When users tried to generate models using the exploited extension they were presented with this image:

Part of me is for this, part of me isn’t.

I’m very wary of AI-generated everything leading to an onslaught of mostly derivative and mostly unimaginative art. I still don’t understand why anyone would think it’s cool for Drake to drag Tupac from the dead in his diss track. We’re still figuring out what to do with this AI technology. I don’t think most people understand AI is trained on already created stuff and there’s nothing really new there. Randomness isn’t innovation, it’s another remix on what’s already done.

For real, I don’t understand why people are fine with letting the bots do things humans should be doing. Why do we want the bots generating art and music? I fully get there are things people shouldn’t be doing. AI is a great solution for that. Leave the humanistic stuff to the people.

-MJ