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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 9695754" data-attributes="member: 7015707">And pursuing a greater reach impacts artistic value how? Because I can only think of negatives. The wider an audience that one seeks, the more generic and bowdlerized one needs to make one's work. A work that a handful of people love is better than one that everyone on Earth agrees is ok.And that feeds back into the positives of AI. It shows me what I ask it for, not what somebody else thought would sell.As an aside, don't you all think that nerd culture was better before it was mainstream? For those of you who are old enough to remember, don't you all think that the internet itself was better before it was mainstream? When it was wild and free and random and not just an mess of rules and businesses and mass market schlock?Without copyright a company takes your idea and uses it* but at least you can still use it yourself. With copyright, as often as not a company tricks you into signing something under bad terms, keeps all the money because of the fine print, and you can't even do anything with the idea yourself. Or else you do make money off of it but you have to spend it all on lawyers.*although god only knows how they make money from it in this scenario since without copyright the consumer can just copy it themself.</blockquote>