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>>dredmo+(OP)
I've been finding that the strangest part of discussions around art AI among technical people is the complete lack of identification or empathy: it seems to me that most computer programmers should be just as afraid as artists, in the face of technology like this!!! I am a failed artist (read, I studied painting in school and tried to make a go at being a commercial artist in animation and couldn't make the cut), and so I decided to do something easier and became a computer programmer, working for FAANG and other large companies and making absurd (to me!!) amounts of cash. In my humble estimation, making art is vastly more difficult than the huge majority of computer programming that is done. Art AI is terrifying if you want to make art for a living- and, if AI is able to do these astonishingly difficult things, why shouldn't it, with some finagling, also be able to do the dumb, simple things most programmers do for their jobs?

The lack of empathy is incredibly depressing...

>>meebob+kc
A lot of coders have radical open source beliefs.

Basically, the argument is that you should not have ever charged for your art, since its viewing and utility is increased when more people see it.

The lack of empathy comes from our love of open source. That's why. These engineers have been pirating books, movies, games for a long time. Artists crying for copyright has the same sound as the MPAA sueing grandma 20 years ago.

>>Der_Ei+PK1
This could easily be flipped on it's head. Artists wanting more control over their creations ensures bad actors can't use/misuse as easily. Freely creating tools for any bad actors to use/misuse appears incredibly naive in this light.

Now was Aaron Schwartz (what I view as on ultimate example of this open source idea you cite) naive, no. Maybe he knew in his heart the greater good would outweigh anything.

But I don't think we should judge too harshly merely falling on one side of this issue or not. Perhaps it's down to a debate about what creation/truth/knowledge actually are. Maybe some creators (of which aritsts and computer scientists are) view creations as something they bring into the world, not reveal about the world.