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While I understand the difficulty artists will have competing with AI, I have to say that claiming the content AI generates runs afowl of copyright is generally disingenuous and inaccurate. The Fair Use index outlines a specific exception to copyright laws, called Transformative use, which applies directly to this topic, keeping in mind that examples that are created merely to replicate existing art with only minor tweaks would not be considered fair use. Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work. AI art uses existing examples and content, exactly like artists do, to outline a framework/genre for the new art being created. The difference, as pointed out in this video, is that AI is simply better at it. Where humans are influenced by their own emotion and intellectual understanding, which can both help and hinder the final outcome and requires decades of fine-tuning and experience, as well as a healthy dose of innate talent, AI excel at pattern recognition, which allows it to identify trends in subject, style, color palette, etc, that often result in the wild popularity of the art it generates. It's able to identify the aspects of popular and pervasive artwork that make it desirable, and concentrate those things into a single creation. Additionally, an important aspect the author of this video, and many others, fail to recognize, is the programmers artistic expression the AI's code reveals. Many may not like to compare coding to art, but looking at the complex and subtle arguments and functions built into any code instantly confirms the presence of a creative and innovative mind. Coding styles are very unique to each coder as well, much like authors writing styles, so much so that you are able to identify who wrote a particular segment of code, or tell who influenced another's style. Given this, I would argue that AI art is just an evolution of art, or an expansion that now directly links the coding behind all of the digital art we see today. At the center, there still exists a human being who sets the boundaries and establishes the target, but they now have access to a much more powerful tool to flesh out the landscape and details, and produce singularly unique creations, that somehow can feel both familiar and otherworldly.