but unfortunately it also doesn’t generate wholly new art, it creates a collage of existing work, but doesn’t attribute any of the art of the other artists used to make it. So even if it were a tool used by artists, it would be effectively stealing art from other artists in the process.
dear fucking god please stop upholding capitalist ideas about IP rights.
I agree, but unfortunately as an artist under capitalism, this is how my fellow artist act. They get incredibly protective of “their style” and it can completely ruin someone’s career if they are accused of “stealing” art. And it’s just kind of rude in general to draw inspiration from something and not attribute the original artist, which was more my original point, that AI art deprives people of the ability to even know who the original artist was. Though the way I phrased it was incredibly poorly worded.
Hot take: Artists should be able to not have their life’s work automatically fed into the plagiarism machine without their compensation or consent. Like I’m not going to pretend that Mickey Mouse being copyrighted for a century is a normal thing, but people having their labor exploited for the profit of the wealthy is kinda the thing we’re supposed to be against, no?
does art belong to everyone or not?
i think you shouldn’t get to opt out of the remix machine but the corporations shouldn’t be able to exploit it for profit exist. Having your work not become part of the commons is the same shit as a century of copyright. Anything we do about these generative models that allows corpos to continue to use them is a bandaid at best.
Well I disagree. You should have a fundamental right to opt out of these things. Even in a perfect world where everything is just and every artist can support themselves, I see no reason it shouldn’t require the creator’s consent. Surely, with no financial pressures to corrupt things, many creatives would willingly contribute to these models, and we wouldn’t need to resort to this ugly, non-consensual scraping.
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how is it an enclosure? the “original” works are all exactly where they were when they were scraped. (and the “original” of a digital thing is a real fucken weird concept too, the first time that image existed was in the computer’s RAM, or maybe the pixels in a particular state on the artist’s monitor, the one that you see on the internet is like 5 generations of copy already)
like fuck these companies and the peter theil types behind them to death but superman 4-ing fractions of pennies from the take a penny tray isn’t theft just because you do it a billion times, and copying isn’t theft at all.
