#asustech

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I'd also point out that the people who use SD and then claim they "made" the images it generates were overwhelmingly already people who hate art and artists.

Like, the actual use cases for this new wave of generative models are insanely narrow (especially relative to how much money has been invested in them) and only a revolving door of loudly anti-intellectual dumbasses have kept up the "but im am an artiste™️©️®️!!" shtick

Nobody really thinks pressing "Generate" after tinkering with the poorly defined parameters of an algorithm trained on stolen data makes you an "actual artist" (not that anyone can define that) in the first place. It was always an obvious lie meant for bad journalists with too much reach to thoughtlessly republish.

can you explain the ai thing to me as though I were a small child I am in fact very stupid and don't understand what the point being made was supposed to be

the point i am trying to make it that ai is fundamentally a labor issue (and just more broadly a capitalism issue) and should be treated as such, any attempts at trying to classify what makes something "not real art" is a slippery slope leading towards fascism and fundamentally irrelevant in the fight against unethical (uses of) AI. the same goes for any attempts at just making copyright laws more strict, this has never helped any independent artists and never will, at best it'll make any sort of derivative art (including fanart, remixes, collages, etc) basically impossible to do unless you're a massive corporation with an unlimited legal budget.