Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
gizmodo.com
The guy who used Midjourney to create an award-winning piece of AI art demands copyright protections.

https://archive.ph/tR7s6

Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

“But I still want to get paid for it.”

    • UlyssesT [he/him]English
      4•9 months ago

      Again, you’re ignoring the material reality of currently existing (and recently forcibly retired) artists who aren’t “IP” hogs and whose economic precarity has worsened because of treat printers as they are being applied, now, in our current material reality. If you think the only meaningful way to steal art is to physically carry off a painting, I really don’t have anything else to say to you.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]English
          3•9 months ago

          I doubt it’d convince me, if it’s just more of the same. Your ideological fundamentalism dismisses and outright ignores too many working class people and I doubt that a paragraph more of that would help.

        • Nakoichi [they/them]MEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          You do realize I am a mod of this conm and I have to. You could just stop posting here and then I wouldn’t have to deal with your shit.

          U right though I’m being lazy by not just banning your annoying ass

          • combat_doomerism [he/him]English
            6•9 months ago

            yeah i just figured you wouldnt get mad and abuse mod power over me calling you lazy but we all make mistakes ig

            • Nakoichi [they/them]MEnglish
              3•9 months ago

              This seriously the hill you wanna die on? Defending AI art for stealing actual artists work? Is that seriously what you are doing right now?

              Because frankly at this point I am abusing my power by NOT banning you you dumb motherfucker.

    • yoink [she/her]English
      4•9 months ago

      you say in your other comment that people are defending IP hoarding by defending people on the small scale, but right here you do the exact same thing in reverse - using the morality of piracy on the large scale in order to win an argument grounded in the small scale

      people are saying ‘small artists that eke by are getting screwed out of compensation for their labour’ and you’re chiming in with ‘why are you trying to stop me from pirating from Marvel?’

      you’re either purposefully being obtuse about this, or you genuinely are so focused on validating your own piracy that you’re talking right past the conversation entirely