There are literally millions of pieces of art everywhere that are free or basically free to view and in many cases use for whatever your heart desires. This is about not getting exactly the piece of art you want to see created and as it turns out there is another alternative open to those without the money to pay artists.
And how does it benefit artists if I search through those millions of free things instead of using a tool to make exactly what I want? I mean, I also built my own deck, drywalled and painted most of my house, changed the plumbing and wiring, put on roofing… I can’t even think of all the things I’ve done instead of hiring somebody. And I learned it all by imitating professional work. Does that make me evil? Did I “steal” from them? Should I not be allowed to own power tools because they take work away from craftspeople?
But now there is a way to get “exactly the piece of art you want to see created” for free with little effort. Are you saying I should just pretend that doesn’t exist?
False dichotomy. You call what AI does “stealing” but I don’t, I see it as the same process we all use when we learn an art, skill or a craft. We spend years looking at examples of other people’s work and (in your terms) “stealing” something from them. And no, I don’t think that’s wrong. Stealing is where you take something and the other person doesn’t have it anymore. Stealing is wrong, but mislabeling something as stealing doesn’t make it stealing.
You’ve tried, yes, but have you learned? Practiced? People don’t automatically know how to draw. They practice for years. Give it a few more thousand tries.
Yes, by all means let’s keep art reserved as a privilege for those who can afford to hire artists. Impeccable moral purity there, Watson!
There are literally millions of pieces of art everywhere that are free or basically free to view and in many cases use for whatever your heart desires. This is about not getting exactly the piece of art you want to see created and as it turns out there is another alternative open to those without the money to pay artists.
And how does it benefit artists if I search through those millions of free things instead of using a tool to make exactly what I want? I mean, I also built my own deck, drywalled and painted most of my house, changed the plumbing and wiring, put on roofing… I can’t even think of all the things I’ve done instead of hiring somebody. And I learned it all by imitating professional work. Does that make me evil? Did I “steal” from them? Should I not be allowed to own power tools because they take work away from craftspeople?
But now there is a way to get “exactly the piece of art you want to see created” for free with little effort. Are you saying I should just pretend that doesn’t exist?
I guess it depends on intent.
If you’re just conjuring images for your D&D game with your buddies, so what.
If your intention is monetizing and selling it, then that’s probably a problem.
It’s not better to keep artists work reserve to anybody who can pay for it as opposed to just stealing their work?
False dichotomy. You call what AI does “stealing” but I don’t, I see it as the same process we all use when we learn an art, skill or a craft. We spend years looking at examples of other people’s work and (in your terms) “stealing” something from them. And no, I don’t think that’s wrong. Stealing is where you take something and the other person doesn’t have it anymore. Stealing is wrong, but mislabeling something as stealing doesn’t make it stealing.
Or… Learn how to draw?
I’ve tried and the results are pathetic.
You’ve tried, yes, but have you learned? Practiced? People don’t automatically know how to draw. They practice for years. Give it a few more thousand tries.