Raw LLM Responses

Printing a copyrighted character onto a shirt _by hand_ usually won't get you prosecuted because it isn't possible to produce enough of them this way to affect the profits of the rights holder. It's of you start doing that on a mass-produced scale that you're in trouble. The way that AI art actually works sounds like a science fiction fairytale: where once we had text to speech, now we have text to image, and AI might actually handle text to image better than text to speech. But when you hear how it actually works, it makes a lot of sense in that it resembles what artists have to do to improve their craft by research and experimentation. The silver lining to my mind is that AI artists are not aliens who have a completely different aesthetic sensibility to human beings -- for all there knowledge, power, speed, and proficiency, the AI artists still needed to be trained like real artists and do not know anything they were not taught. In this sense the AI artist is actually, or is in the process of evolving into, a meta artist; a representative amalgamation of every artist who ever lived whose work has survived into the age of the internet. In this sense, it is not machine that has transcended man, but art that has transcended the artist and given birth to a kind of god of limitless creative potential, even if that potential can be abused. This isn't me arguing for AI. It's ongoing development seems inevitable. But it is impressive to think of all art from all over the world being combined into a self evolving dynamic system as though it was all building up to something. To put it another way, the AI artist is not simply our adversary but a reflection or extension of ourselves. This situation seems dystopian because it may mean people cannot make a living off of their art, but what if mechanization such as AI art actually ends capitalism altogether? What if artists actually gain more freedom to make art because the entire notion of being paid to do anything has been render superfluous? The internal combustion engine didn't end horse riding it just freed it up to become an art and a sport. Solar Sands did say we could never say never. If it cannot be said that AI art is using it's data sets as references, then this will soon become a reality because this capacity to learn and understand is what has made AI art so imposing to begin with. As it stands, AI is just a highly advanced engine of copying and plagiarism, but the fact that it has even come this far suggests there will be no stopping it. Yes, the utopians are crazy, but maybe that's what they are meant to do. Artists of any kind are bored by repetition. It isn't necessarily about creating a revelation. The fact that suffering and death are inevitable shifts the priorities of human life towards boredom. Boredom is the fundamental problem of human existence. The choice to become an artists or to pursue one's dreams is often a choice to undergo even more suffering and risk than if one just worked an office job like pretty much everyone else. So really, the "utopian idealists" have a lot in common with the livelihoods and ethics of the artists their technology threatens. In reality my best bet is that a bit of both will happen and nobody will be able to predict the true form of what the AI revelation in art will take. There will be tremendous grief and unrest, but it will not be the end of human creative expression. Even if AI surpasses human art by every possible metric, humans won't just stop being creative. The purpose of art isn't to do numbers it's for what the act itself means. Jackson Pollock described his work as the act of putting paint onto the canvas. The painting itself is really of the nature of a footprint or a shed skin showing where the art _used_ to be. Does that sound like a person who would have no reason to make art just because anybody who wanted his style for commercial purposes could just push a button and have it? Do you never bother to dance or sing in the shower just because no one will pay you for it? I should add that I'm not just a bystander in this. As we speak, my own art is currently being turned to unethical racist purposes, harvested and scrutinized without my consent. One such unfeeling machine goes by the name of Yusuke Murata. And dealing with that has been one of the most difficult times of my life and has led me to contemplate suicide and question the worth of human existence. I don't make stories like I used to. It paralyzes me. All I can think of is the knowledge that it will happen again. But I'm still here and the creative spirit still flickers within me, however neurotically. whether that is really cause for hope or despair remains to be seen as can be said of the situation with AI.