Raw LLM Responses

So this video is falling into a lot of the issues and tricks the anti-AI movement often uses. I've dismantled his arguments below: 1) 2:26 - His only somewhat functioning counter argument here is the "photography isn't passed of as oil painting". But it definitely was. Many started to use photo references, even projecting photos onto canvases for tracing, to be able to easier paint portraits and oil paintings. So photography became a tool to help oil painting, just like AI can be a tool to help a cartoonist with backgrounds or whatnot. 2) 3:10 - There's so much art and art forms that are based on previous art. Collage is one obvious example (like Hannah Höch), or music sampling. 3) 3:38 - Key word here is "today". It's true that "today" AI often uses datasets with copyrighted materials, and that data centers "today" are bad for the environment etc, but does that mean that we won't have ethical and environmentally friendly AI tomorrow? Of course not. It's actually very possible to train AI on cleared datasets, especially as the AIs get better at giving better results with smaller datasets. Ethical AI is just arguably already here (there's been some semi-interesting attempts) or at least coming soon, so criticising the concept of generative AI due to the dataset is odd to me. Same with the environment aspect, anti-AI folks always ignore the fact that it's possible to just not run AI on the environmentally unfriendly data centers. You can do it on green data centers or locally. (EDIT: Towards the end of the vid he says that he thinks there could be a world with ethical AI, referring to something he said in some other video. I've only seen this video and countering the points made here.) 4) 4:30 - Here he doesn't even meet the argument, just asks for a break. 5) 6:00 - It's fun to see that other likeminded has started to bring up Duchamp when disproving the anti-AI movement too. Never seen anyone else do that before, it was usually only me. It was fun since anti-AI people often stated they knew art better, and then when I spoke about dadaism (which Fountain falls under) they wouldn't even know what it was. Anyhow, his point seems to be that Fountain shows that these ideas have already been challenged. I thought so too, until AI became popular and all of the sudden the "what is art" question was popping off again. When studying art history I really thought that the debate was over - but I was wrong. His video kind of disproves his own point. For fun, here's some examples of art I've enjoyed that has used generative AI: 1) Igorrr's music video ADHD. 2) Late Night with the Devil (2023) 3) Lil Yachty's ominous album cover for Let's Start Here. 4) MGMT's music video for When You Die 5) Refik Anadol. .