AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

[soviet]

But a LOT of creative work is purely commercial.

No it isn't. Name some examples.

 

[Bill Zebub]

No it isn't. Name some examples.

I'll put a bold stake in the ground: just about everything.

Let's take movies for example. You can bet that if executives at Netflix believed that reducing the spend on "artistic value" of a movie by $X would mean a decline in revenue of some fraction of X, they'd do it. It's a commercial decision. The creatives who work on the project may not think they are making art, but the people who own the movie think they are making a product to be sold.

Again, I'm not as cynical as you seem to be about the general population's appreciation for artistic quality, so I think that calculus will produce a less traumatic result than some fear. On the other hand, the AI might get better. So we'll see.

EDIT: But if it's true that most people won't notice or care about the difference, then, yeah, movies will be all AI sooner rather than later. So let's hope my less cynical view is right.