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This is almost verbatim the same argument they use against piracy saying if people can pirate "no one buys any disks from the store" - DP (Don't copy that Floppy). And it's wrong. I use AI the same way I use piracy, and I do appreciate real art. Which is why I say that the anti-AI arguments I see floating around are bullshit, you don't know people who use it, you're regurgitating ideas and talking points that don't apply evenly to all people, just like anti-piracy propaganda does.
I'm not taking credit for it, maybe some people do, but it's a strawman argument to say everyone does. I see AI generation as another form of piracy.
Like I said, same thing as piracy. The arguments against piracy fall onto deaf ears, and I don't respect them. Because Copyright, especially broken long copyright like what the US has is killing our culture. I don't respect it and will not honor it. People who make a moral panic about forms of piracy are basically screaming "Think of the children" as far as I'm concerned.
Do you understand the different conext of wanting something to be profitable vs wanting people to know you made the thing you worked to create?
This is i think a core separation on the issue, and speaks to how little empathy the AI shovelers have for the tools they use trained on the hard work of real human beings.
So who are these people crediting when the image they asked to be generated is using art that isn't credited?
Spoken like someone who hasn't created art great enough that they want their name on it.
Willing to bet that you along with the majority of the morally outraged people on this subject who are whining haven't either. They're usually at it for the same reasons people who whine about piracy do what they do and simp for IP holders, because they've seen others do it.
They aren't crediting anyone or taking credit, same as pirating content. Just like how we don't go out of our way to give credit to the people who pirated the content or the people who made the film.
I am not going to even indulge the idea of this of owning style or technique, I've seen some really toxic ideas around trying to own style, traits, or even a fictional species and this is downright petty, and one of the most extreme forms of gatekeeping in that space yet. It's also so low that it's not even protected by copyright but even if it were I'd respect it less than I do more concrete forms of intellectual property (which I don't respect either).