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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 9154540" data-attributes="member: 1">Because the AI is not making new art, it's plagiarising existing art. That's the core of the issue.And before anybody says it--it's not 'influenced by' previous art. It's not 'inspired by giants'. It's not painting or writing 'in the style of'. It mechanically copies it--heck, the original signatures sometime show up! AI is not capable of creativity yet. It can't make anything new, like a human can. Maybe one day it will, but right now that's a long, long way away. These are all Large Language Models; they're not really AI; they're not thinking, they're copying.And sure, that's the artist's problem, not yours. I get it. But when making art is not a viable option any more, all you will have is regurgitated art. Nothing new, because nobody's making anything new.So it's not just the artist's problem, it's society's problem, because we as humans value art. We don't want a dystopia with nothing new ever being created, just regurgitated images and movies and books. It's bad enough now, let alone when humans no longer have a part in it. So it is in our interests to protect the artists, the writers, the actors, etc, so we get to continue to live in a society where new stuff is made.Ethics aren't based on whether or not I notice them. I don't even know how to respond to that, other than yes, it's still unethical even if I didn't notice or care.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 9154540, member: 1"] Because the AI is not making new art, it's plagiarising existing art. That's the core of the issue. And before anybody says it--it's not 'influenced by' previous art. It's not 'inspired by giants'. It's not painting or writing 'in the style of'. It mechanically [I]copies[/I] it--heck, the original signatures sometime show up! AI is not capable of creativity yet. It can't make anything new, like a human can. Maybe one day it will, but right now that's a long, long way away. These are all Large Language Models; they're not really AI; they're not thinking, they're copying. And sure, that's the artist's problem, not yours. I get it. But when making art is not a viable option any more, all you will have is regurgitated art. Nothing new, because nobody's making anything new. So it's not just the artist's problem, it's[I] society's [/I]problem, because we as humans value art. We don't want a dystopia with nothing new ever being created, just regurgitated images and movies and books. It's bad enough now, let alone when humans no longer have a part in it. So it is in [I]our[/I] interests to protect the artists, the writers, the actors, etc, so we get to continue to live in a society where new stuff is made. Ethics aren't based on whether or not I notice them. I don't even know how to respond to that, other than yes, it's still unethical even if I didn't notice or care. [/QUOTE]

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