It’s the little sacrifices that make a good parent great lol

The ethical sourcing of the data was your biggest argument against it, everything else is just… Classic “people of ol” arguments when technology progresses. Niche skills dying out when tech advances is a part of life and people will always always seek out and pay a premium for things that are made “with process”. There are no more blacksmiths in every village, but they still exist AND charge an ass load for their skills. The same will happen with AI when things simmer down

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Gen AI from the very beginning has been about divesting the effort and skill of workers to avoid having to pay them for it

No actually, GenAI has been worked on for years now by researchers, we’ve got papers all the way back to like 2010. Companies are trying to take the technology now and wield it like that, but it certainly didn’t start that way

The fact that the entire technology is built off of the unethical use of other’s art

No it’s not, the technology is built on datasets for training, where and how the data for the datasets is obtained is where things can be ethical or unethical.

There are datasets out there solely built with data that was either owned or had express permission to be used in that manner. Adobe’s AI offerings for example is probably the biggest case of GenAI being built with “ethically sourced data” (for now anyways, Adobe being Adobe it would not surprise if it were to come out in the future they were lying the whole time)

You can have an ethically trained GenAI model

making art is literally the most accessible human activity besides breathing.

To just make anything sure, but if you’ve got a specific idea in your head you want realized, well that’s going to take development of skill and talent. Breathing requires no skill or talent whatsoever.

I’ve had ideas in my head, concepts for artwork I wanted realized, but lacked the skill to actually bring it to life. Before GenAI, my only option was to pay to have it commissioned which gets prohibitively expensive really quick for an individual.

That’s what people mean when they say “makes art more accessible”, getting the idea of exactly what they want in their head realized without having to drop 200$

Absolutely fuck companies using it when they can pay for all the art commissions they need or have artists on staff though