Raw LLM Responses

I think we should disentangle two different problems here, namely unfair AI training practices versus the very existence of AI art. I think you make good points when it comes to the former, like the double standard with the music industry for instance. But the problem remains: that concern is not what I see at the bottom of most complaints. What I see at the bottom of most complaints is the latter, an anthropocentric conception of art that will be slowly but inevitably shattered as AIs improve, a mystification of the difference between AI and human art. It is wrong to say that AIs simply “replicate” things, or at least to say that they replicate any less than we do, the “only” difference being that we replicate from the vastly bigger and richer “training set” that is the whole of human experience. They donʼt simply copy and paste, but combine different references, styles, colour palettes and so on in new ways, just as we humans ultimately do. Also, our “human touch” could very well be only an artifact of our limited capacity, or even unwillingness, to integrate every possible reference in existence, in contrast with how AIs are all able to scan the same billion images and thus end up feeling samey. Going back to unfair AI training practices, it is possible weʼll get to a point where AIs will be able to create amazing art, even if just in the purely Turing sense of being indistinguishable from human art, without training on copyrighted content. Will then the complaints simply disappear? I doubt it. On a different note, I think an interesting question to ponder is why some artists are angry in the first place: is it AIs using their work as reference, or is it AIs using their work as reference _to generate a profit for a company_ in the context of a market economy where artists have to keep a “secret recipe” to be able to constantly compete in order to survive? Or in other words: will art become a less and less attractive career as its human modality stops being the most profitable form of art? Is it AI what these artists oppose, or is it capitalism?