#my bottom line is I'm aggressively neutral on it and think its both a good and bad thing in practice

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I think there's plenty of ethical concerns re: AI art but most people criticizing it fundamentally don't understand how the image generation processes work and are imagining it as very literal 'theft', or are operating on kneejerk reactions about """""Real Art""""" that aren't fundamentally different than any other attempts to separate 'true art' from 'fake lazy art' throughout history, so the conversation is kind of doomed to be bad and annoying from the start

#my bottom line is I'm aggressively neutral on it and think its both a good and bad thing in practice #also I don't give a shit if any of my art was one of the tens of thousands of images sampled to train an image generator but #I can understand being uncomfortable with that #But also that doesn't mean IP laws should be strengthened to 'protect artists' #They shouldn't and it won't. #My concerns are mostly based in the use of automation as a cost cutting measure to exploit and replace human labor at the worker's expense #which is not an issue specific to AI art or algorithmically generated content in general #I don't really care about the rest