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]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    In the current economic system you’re saying that artists trying to get paid for making art should effectively cease to exist.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Feel that way if you must, but I am explaining why a lot of people here aren’t quite as bazinga for the treat printers when it comes to driving artists entirely out of the craft because of economic precarity, consequently leading to even more expansion of the bland and bleak brave new world of treat printers.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            3 months ago

            the vast majority of artists don’t make money doing art and never will if they don’t work at a company

            Are you so certain of that?

            I don’t understand this take

            You may be more correct there than you realize, especially regarding my first question there.

            maybe it’s because I’m so into fanfiction but like there will always be millions of people making more art than you know what to do with

            Yeah fanfiction is cool and good but there really are people, from paid-by-commission artists to graphic designers to writers under publisher contracts that are all affected by treat printers. Their material conditions have worsened and precarity has increased. “You got yours,” so to speak, but that doesn’t mean you speak for everyone else there. Losing a job sucks; that shouldn’t be hard for you to understand.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                3·
                3 months 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.

                  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    3·
                    3 months 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.