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You're arguing that artists have a shitty home, therefore it's not worth protecting as those AI companies are trying to take even that from them. And you're somehow trying to sound like you're pro artists in all this. Please, listen to yourself.

>>Viseon+(OP)
I wouldn't try reading too much into the pithy poetry I added at the last minute to make a broad, perhaps not particularly clear point about how copyright has been twisted to only serve established conglomerates rather than individuals.

My main beef with the approach being taken by a lot of artists towards AI art generators, using copyright in an attempt to kick the tools in the shin (notably not actually kill it, only perhaps slow it down a bit) could set legal precedent that would make it worse for individual artists and smaller groups by putting the most useful and powerful variations of the technology exclusively in the hands of intellectual property hoarders like Disney. As opposed to a more open approach where the possibility exists for useful generators to exist for free.

I'm not anti artist, I do genuinely think that this outcome would make things worse for them and better for the companies that already exploit them.