I am not witholding “basic respect to another human being” by acknowledging the complexity of the issue.

I mean, you read what you wanna read, but I spent a good chunk of this thread talking about how our laws to regulate copyright are broken, how big platform owners share many of the challenges of this new application and how the whole thing needs to be regulated again from the ground up for the new realities.

For the record, no, I’m not setting the line at legality

You are not paying attention to what I’m saying.

For instance, we can’t guarantee how much of the underlying process of creating the images the AI is utilizing because a lot of the black boxed categorization is parsing those elements.

Nnnnope, that’s not what is happening here. That’s... a bit of a common misconception, I’m finding out, but it’s not accurate.

And regardless of whether you draw manga, cartoons or realistic paintings you still do construction and you still apply lighting techniques, perspective, color theory. Yeah, sure, you can choose to ignore them, but you probably have to know them if you’re a professional artist, which is what is being discussed here.

I am gonna guess you’re neither a coder nor an illustrator, because assuming there is not learned technique in art is... actually quite insulting and assuming there’s no creativity to coding (or that it’s adding a number to another number) is also pretty bad.

They are, in fact, identical tech. You are arguing that text autocorrect is fundamentally fine while content-aware fill tools in photoshop are fundamentally wrong, which is a tough argument to make.

It’s interesting to see artists reacting this way, but these techniques are also being deployed for things like coding.

I guess I have two things to say here

That is what the article implies though.

So are we just defining ‘cringe’ as ‘deeply mediocre’ now?  

Your question is pretty much entirely irrelevant. It could be in total legally his, and he could have all the legal right in the world to post it as he did... and unless he’s willing to spend a whole lot of money and time fighting it in court, and dealing with YouTube... it doesn’t matter.

Oh....you obviously haven’t stumbled over the Threadnaught. Linking not to the latest part of it, but from the 16th it was day 1,168 of Greg’s ‘coverage’ of it. Funny story in there too, he got licensed to practice law in Texas (he was already a lawyer elsewhere) because Vic fans kept telling him the laws in Texas…

Yeah its not exactly a unique design. Its incredibly generic.

I hate to break it to you, but for every one of these stories like this, theres dozens if not hundreds of others that happen where they don’t get caught (or they get caught but no one pays attention so there are no consequences).

I’d argue that ‘power corrupts’ is the quote that is easily misinterpreted.  As with that quote/idea the blame lies not on people, but on power itself.

So there a problem with ‘but the police do have a duty to take threats seriously’.

I’m struggling to understand the ‘problem’ with the quote? You don’t seem to identify it. Nothing of what you said, actually goes against anything the quote says both on its own, and in context of Herbert and his writing.