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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scott2978" data-source="post: 9500478" data-attributes="member: 6667922"><p>Sooner or later everyone will be dragged kicking and screaming into the AI art future. AI is a tool, not unlike a paintbrush in some ways, and the primary complaint that it plagiarizes other artists without permission is like saying anyone who sees a Picasso and then paints a picture is plagiarizing Picasso... No human artist ever created anything totally devoid of the influence of other artists' work to some degree, and even one artist literally copying another artist's work is a normal thing in the art world, including movie remakes. So long as an artist doesn't try to pass it off as the work of the original artist, there's nothing at all wrong with it, either legally or morally.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and all that. People who made a living in the textile industry had to get a grip when the spinning jenny was invented, and the same is going to happen to a lot of other industries as a result of AI. Panic about it is unproductive and irresponsible: horses didn't go away when cars were invented. Pandora's box is open, and for better or worse, we need to find a way to live in harmony with it, not try to plug the hole in the dyke with our thumb. This isn't a popular opinion, but it's the logical one. People railing against AI art is like people railing against social media... good luck with that. It's more productive to spend that energy finding a way to compromise the best vs the worst aspects of the new reality which is here to stay, and anyone trying in vain to hold the line will just be left behind as history flows around them into the inevitable future. AI is already poised to make hundreds of careers obsolete within ten years from now... AI art will be the least of your worries. I say rather than planting our heads in the sand by planting our flag, let's use this as a proving ground for dealing with it rationally and responsibly, because this is just the tip of a very big iceberg.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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