• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago
    1. Calling what AI does “stealing” is an opinion, not a starting point.
    2. AI uses a lot of resources. Big deal, so did the artist Christo, who liked to hang gigantic curtains of orange cloth across canyons, wrap hillsides in it, etc. So did whoever made the Sphinx and the fucking pyramids.
    3. It steals your creations to feed itself. So did Picasso, whose images of people have been called “derivative” because they looks like El Greco’s.

    Most art looks like previous art, because artists (like pretty much everybody) learn by observing other people’s work. “Oh, but AI doesn’t produce anything original it just rehashes other people’s work that it steals!” Yeah, how many truly original movies have been made in the last 30 years? Imitation is what people do, and there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s how civilization has always worked. AI just does it faster. Computers do lots of things faster. Do you use a calculator? You unethical bastard! You should hire an accountant LOL!

    • redwattlebird
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      10 hours ago

      Wow. Ok. I’m not going to argue with you further because your understanding of AI is odd at best and at worst just plain wrong. Enjoy your prompts.