Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked
“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”
“But I still want to get paid for it.”
Only I am allowed to steal
All AI art has the exact same value as an NFT. I can copy-paste your image and make it mine, I can copy-paste your prompt and make it mine. Labour Theory of Value Gang stay winning.
But I still want to get paid for it
If only there was an economic system that made it so he could make a good living regardless of the output of his work…
At the end of the day, I think this is the important thing. Arguments about IP and how AI (or AI “artists”) affect artists are understandable, but are missing the forest for the trees.
There’s one, singular reason art isn’t well recognised nor compensated: Capitalism. And so long as it exists, no attitude or approach to AI, no purity filter, no level of enforcement of IP law, is going to effectively protect artists and meaningfully allow them to pursue their work.
