hello! I just saw your post about ai and I generally agree with you that ai art isn't necessarily the death of art that some people are saying it is, but I thought I'd also add some info about the stealing art thing because I think it actually adds to your point.
so I think when people say ai is stealing art what they mean is that companies are using actual art by still living artists to train their ai, when then allows the ai to produce art in the same style but custom to the user. so rather than an individual paying an artist for a custom commission and the profit going to the artist an individual can ask an ai to produce a custom piece of work in the same style for free or just for the cost of using the ai.
and maybe this wouldn't be such a bad thing for artists that are no longer living or trying to profit off their art, but there have been instances of people creating ai art based on a currently living artist's work and then selling those images as original works using the artists name. there have also been instances of artists posting progression photos of a piece they're working on, only to have someone take those photos and other images of their finished works, and then have the ai finish the art piece before the artist even has.
but I think this fits into what you were saying because this is just another instance of ai being used to undercomompensate creatives for their work, transferring the value of a unique style of art that a person has taken many years to craft, and giving it to the owners of an ai or in some cases the users of the ai.
ai isn't inherently exploitive but people who were already looking to profit off the work of others, now have yet another tool at their disposal
yeah don't really have anything 2 add here i think this makes sense xx again 4 me the main issue here is that capitalism creates these scarcity economies in the first place where artists have to compete for compensation, and within that system people will use these technologies to take advantage of each other, but i think our critiques should be focused on the brokenness of the system within which this exploitation is even made possible rather than like. debates about where to draw the line in terms of what sort of derivative art is real/not real
