Any artist who puts their work somewhere for people to see wants people to see it. They want people to absorb it, to feel something, to be inspired by it. They don’t (necessarily) want an AI to chop it up into little pieces and absorb it, ready to recreate the finer points of it at a moment’s notice. It is simply not…

I wouldn’t describe my attitude as remotely “romantic.” It’s entirely pragmatic

but it trains based on the same data and “learns” how to recreate common patterns.

Just because an artist uploads their art to social media and wants people to see it doesn’t mean that they want it to be used to train algorithms that may be able to steal their jobs

I don’t expect them to know more about it than human art. But I do expect a website allegedly about TECH to attract people who are more knowledgeable than, “zomg, ai just averages its inputs.”

Stay away moar, please. Maybe then this place will get back to what it used to be, instead of a place where technophobes hem and haw about the next horseless carriage taking their jobs reaping corn away.

Because using past artists for inspiration isn’t what this AI is doing

You’re talking about prompts. I’m talking about subjects or influences that the creators have a deep personal stake in, whether emotional, psychological, or intellectual.

AI does not do this. AI cannot do this, because it has no goal beyond producing a work within specified parameters. It generates text or imagery, it doesn’t worry about whether it’s derivative or unoriginal. It is simply a sophisticated version of autofill. This is not what writers or artists do. Even a total hack is…

Absolutely “dubiously obtained”. These artists weren’t compensated for the use of their art that in turn was used by these companies to train AI to eventually turn a profit. Without this art, the AI wouldn’t be able to generate anything, so even if the art isn’t intended to “duplicate” the original works, it still…

Yes, it is.

Ah, yes. Tell us you have no idea what working on creative projects implies without telling us you have no idea what working on creative projects implies

AIs are not creative, you’re just throwing real art into a blender and telling them “make me something like that”

usually they take in a lot of human-created art in order to be able to function at all and most of that is dubiously obtained

It’s not different. There was more coverage of the Thailand cave rescue which didn’t involve rescuing any billionaires in distress. Likewise with the mining collapse rescue in Chile, and other similar stories.

Remember the cave rescue?

I joined Facebook when it came to my university because it was cleaner and less chaotic than MySpace (which was cleaner and less chaotic than Geocities). There was no notion of “complicated” feature sets back then because nothing could be very complicated.

Obi-Wan could be any age though. He’s a wizard, and wizard classically live a supernaturally long time.

Finding lost Jedi who had escaped the Purge has been a thing for literal decades. It didn’t just start in 2019, or even 2005.

The “problem” the Jedi purge always had is that it was clearly initially set up in A New Hope as something that happened over a very long period of time, and the time were there were 100 000 Jedi in the galaxy is very far in the rear view mirror. It’s very much a fantasy concept of lost golden age.