Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work
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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
    2•9 hours ago

    pretty certain the majority of people doing art do not make a living off it

    Even if that were so (and that really depends on how wide your definitions are), does that invalidate the existence of everyone that does try to make a living with their art?

    but like complain about the owners like normal don’t defend IP

    Ideologically absolute anti-IP stances with no considerations for ordinary artists that aren’t IP-hoarding corporations aren’t likely to win over those artists or the people that care about them. You complained about a relative lack of support for your positions here. I am explaining why that is so.

    • combat_doomerism [he/him]English
      2•9 hours ago

      I’m not sure what you mean by “invalidate the existence”, I understand their plight and I’m sorry the tech will end up causing a lot of poor people pain but I think again that any complaints on a communist website that defend IP should be pushed back on. My point is that such arguments are very short sighted, in trying to defend small artists in this way they entrench IP which will be forever more helpful to IP-hoarding corporations

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

        but I think again that any complaints on a communist website that defend IP should be pushed back on

        Again. It isn’t just about IP. As @Nakoichi@hexbear.net has already pointed out, people’s labor has been stolen and continues to be stolen. If you can’t accept that or acknowledge that, you’re floating on a cloud of liberal privilege and it’s up to you to come down from it.

          • yoink [she/her]English
            2•7 hours 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

          • UlyssesT [he/him]English
            3•8 hours 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
                1•7 hours 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
                1•32 minutes 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
                  1•20 minutes ago

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