Raw LLM Responses

As someone who both uses AI Art and does sympathize with the plight of actual artists (Yes, call me a hypocrite, I don't really care if you do), the reality of the matter is sadly for artists, that there is no existing legislature that will protect one's work from use by an AI, as the consumption and analysis of this kind of material doesn't fall under any existing copyright or other intellectual property laws. The way that AI like SD work is that they are fed a large dataset of images that include metadata about the contents of the individual images. The end product is a 'model' that doesn't so much contain the works in all reality, but data learned and created from those images. This rules out any sort of distribution of copyrighted material. Secondly, the AI when generating art, utilizes data from across its' entire model that matches the prompt given - this could be hundreds of artists' works that again, were once deconstructed and analysed, only to be reinterpereted into what could really only be called a series of virtual neurons that make up the greater model. AIs in their very essence, are very complex comparison machines that have the ability to differentiate things and create an output from those differences based on a provided prompt and training data. This means that the art is, believe it or not, in the eyes of the law, 'original'. The AI didn't so much copy someone else's homework, as it just copied a bunch of people's work and took information from it all to create its' own. This isn't (at least in the circumstances of AI) a violation of intellectual property laws, and even then, it would be difficult bearing on impossible for an artist to convince a court that the AI generated work, uses their work, outside of aforementioned use in the training model, and even then, the training model itself doesn't contain the copyrighted material. The best bet of artists to nip this in the bud or bring it under control is to coerce either big lobbying groups and intellectual property authorities like the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to push for dedicated AI legislation or treaties - The existing laws do not protect artists in this regard in the slightest as not only is legislature slow, but it couldn't have predicted the advent of AI technology being not just this quick to arrive, but to be this easily accessible, as anyone with a high or upper-mid end GPU like a RTX 3060 can generate art. At the end of the day, I understand your plight, but I implore you to not ban AI outright but to see it much like how artists saw 3d Animation and things like it - as a useful tool to help in the creative process, and implement reasonable protections that ensure that artists remain able to find work.