If AI art only used ethically-sourced data, there’d be a lot less objection to it.
I can say, for sure, that this isn’t true.
People still catch the exact same flak for using generative fill in Photoshop despite Adobe training their models on artwork with the explicit permissions (and compensation) of the artists involved in making the training data.
People treat every model like it has personally eaten ever drawing and macaroni painting that they’ve ever done.
what if the knife were made out of the skulls of infants
Then that is a fucked up knife, but doesn’t change anything about the dish.
The argument is: the dish requires the use of the fucked-up knife.
If AI art only used ethically-sourced data, there’d be a lot less objection to it.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
The actual problem is the exploitative system of “IP” and having to serve capital in order to survive, not people making pictures with computers.
I can say, for sure, that this isn’t true.
People still catch the exact same flak for using generative fill in Photoshop despite Adobe training their models on artwork with the explicit permissions (and compensation) of the artists involved in making the training data.
People treat every model like it has personally eaten ever drawing and macaroni painting that they’ve ever done.