Appendix J — AI and Artalytics

Challenges and Solutions

Abstract
This chapter illustrates how uncontrolled proliferation of AI-generated artwork impacts creators, and what Artalytics does to solve these issues directly affecting digital artists.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have made it drastically easier to generate art at scale. While this capability has opened new creative possibilities, the unchecked spread of AI-generated artwork has also created serious risks for digital artists—from unauthorized use of their images in training datasets to outright infringement of their unique styles (Freedman 2023; Johnson 2023; Clark 2024). Despite some discussions about the potential increase in collector interest toward authentic human-made artwork, the most pressing and direct negative impacts fall on the creators themselves (NEFTA 2022).

Key Challenges for Human Creators

  1. Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Materials
    Many AI models are trained on scraped images, often without licensing or artist consent (Creative Commons 2022). This unauthorized usage effectively absorbs the artistic essence of creators’ styles into training models, enabling the generation of derivative or near-replica works by others.

  2. Loss of Attribution and Credit
    Human artists frequently find AI outputs that mimic their styles, but receive no formal acknowledgment or compensation (The Verge 2022). Proving infringement can be complicated when a work is not a direct copy but a sophisticated mimicry of the artist’s unique technique.

  3. Difficulty Enforcing Rights
    Rapid proliferation of AI content across marketplaces creates a fragmented environment for policing IP rights (World Intellectual Property Organization 2021). Current laws offer limited clarity for AI-driven infringement, making enforcement of an artist’s copyright expensive and time-consuming (Johnson 2023).

  4. Impact on Market Perception
    With so much automated content flooding digital art spaces, collectors struggle to distinguish authentic works from algorithmic output (Davis 2024). While this might eventually raise the perceived value of human-made art, it does little to alleviate the immediate IP and brand-dilution issues artists face.

How Artalytics Addresses These Direct Harms

Artalytics is a digital artwork authentication and protection platform that tackles the issues above by offering:

  • Verified Authorship and Style Profiling Artists upload their artwork’s original digital canvas file, which is subjected to deep statistical analysis. Artalytics then generates a quantified signature of the artist’s style—creating legally actionable proof of authorship and unique technique (Dickerson 2025).

  • Continuous Web Scanning for Infringements
    Once an artist’s portfolio is verified, Artalytics continuously scans the web and leading marketplaces to identify AI-generated (or otherwise infringing) works that overlap with the artist’s style or direct content. Early detection helps creators rapidly issue takedowns or seek compensation.

  • Legally Actionable Evidence
    The platform’s style-comparison reports can serve as robust proof in IP disputes, substantiating claims of unlawful mimicry or unauthorized use in AI training sets (Johnson 2023). Artists can more confidently send notice to infringing parties, backed by detailed similarity metrics.

  • Permanent IP Protections
    Artalytics embeds unalterable records and relevant metadata into the associated digital asset, making it clear that the work belongs to a verified human creator. This system helps maintain the provenance trail even if the artwork circulates through multiple marketplaces.

Brief Note on Collectors

While collectors and investors may see an eventual increase in the value of authenticated human-made work (due to AI-saturated marketplaces), the primary concern lies in the immediate harm to artists’ ability to protect and profit from their own creations. By securing legal and technological safeguards for creators, Artalytics indirectly supports a more trustworthy environment for collectors as well, ensuring that genuine works retain their inherent, provable human originality.