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As an artist, both visual and audio, I appreciate your video. WITH THAT SAID, your first point is incorrect in a BIG way. Artists steal from other artists ALL THE TIME. Just as blatantly, if not moreso, than A.I. The way you explained how you learned to do your own style is pretty much identical to how A.I. does it. A.I. just does it on a much larger scale in much less time. You saw art you liked, you put it in your "dataset", I.E., BRAIN, and you reference that along with other art you've seen and you reference all of those types of art that you have interacted with to distill them down into an original interpretation. When you saw the mona lisa, you weren't given "consent" to put that painting in your brain-database. It just happened. And as an artist, once you've seen it, you're now able to reference that data and it can help you create new art in YOUR style. This is absolutely no different than A.I. A.I. sees the mona lisa, puts it in the data set, and when I do a prompt "do an artistic painting of a woman sitting with a slight smile on her face" you best believe that's one of the paintings referenced. JUST LIKE if I hired YOU to paint me a painting of a woman sitting with a slight smile on her face, I LITERALLY prompted you to do it by commissioning it, the prompt is the description, and if you've EVER seen the mona lisa, when I say "do a painting of a woman sitting slightly smiling" then that's one of the FIRST paintings in YOUR database that YOU reference. But you didn't steal it, and niehter did A.I. because the end result that either of you draw is NOT the mona lisa, its something new, based on TONS of images, ideas, and concepts that you AND a.i. have picked up along the way. But about "stealing". Artists DO steal. They steal aesthetics, painting styles, drawing styles, musical styles, ENTIRE GENRES OF MUSIC are born by somebody doing something "new" which is based on somebody else's music, and then other people hear the "new" band and start literally copying them. See also: Meshuggah. And while less blatant theft is called inspiration and influence, more blatant theft is called "copycat artist". A.I. is actually not nearly as bad at this as humans are, because the A.I. dataset for art is MUCH LARGER so when a.i. pulls from its dataset, its pulling from a much larger pool and will be less likely to have a single obvious "influence" without being prompted for it. But I do hate to break it to you, but the way you amassed your artistic style and your influences is pretty much identical to A.I. exept your dataset is arguably smaller, some would argue that its bigger, but humans have more trouble accessing everythign they've seen and heard over a lifetime so your accessible dataset is smaller than a.i. But anime? that's because artists copied each other and were influenced by each other. Graphic design? artists copying artists. A.I. gets SHIT ON by artists because it is literally showing you how YOU learned, how YOU developed YOUR style, because its doing the exact same thing in the exact same way. I've seen a lot of your art and it is good. And it is also obviously, QUITE obviously influenced by other artists. and the artists you are referencing in your brain-box dataset did not give you express consent to reference that art. But you didn't exactly steal it unless you straight copied it line for line. Same with music. There's TONS of artists that sound spooky like another artist, like greta van fleet vs. led zepplin, but they're still not actually "stealing" per se, they're copycating/heavily influenced by. BUT WHEN A.I. is prompted to write a song in the style of led zepplin, you get on here making a video about how a.i. steals art without consent. Not actually what's happening at all and is no different than what humans do, but OK. :::EDIT::: And your other point about how davinci didn't start out as a great artist because he went through an iterative process actually destroys your own entire argument. Everybody shitting on A.I. art has forgotten one small detail: It has taken a.i. YEARS of trial and error to be able to generate art. When A.I. ART STARTED, it couldn't even make a stick figure. Was putting hands where feet go. It made "realistic photos" that looked like melted picaso paintings. It took A.I. YEARS of iterative training to be able to spit out an image that was reasonably good enough that you could say "that looks like a man sitting on a bench". Everybody forgot that. A.I. has gotten to where it is today EXACTLY the same way as how davinci did it. It started out as a very shitty unskilled image creator, just like davinci. And here we are, years later, hundreds of thousands of iterations later, billions, actually, years and years and years of A.I. learning, developing, learning concepts like color theory, perspective, all the things you just said davinci had to learn, in order for a.i. to improve to the point to where FINALLY it can generate a realistic looking oil painting of an oak tree in a meadow. It took A.I. millions of hours of trial and error, and BAD LOW QUALITY ART to get to that point. It can be argued that A.I. has worked harder and longer than davinci on art, which is why so many human artists are upset. Because we're starting to see the fruits of A.I.s labor. Tech companies don't owe you OR me a PENNY for A.I. seeing your art and being influenced by it. Unless A.I. starts plagerizing you, they owe you nothing. Me either. A.I. is doing the same thing with your art that I would do if I looked at your art, which I have, and was hired by a person to create something. Your art is now in my database and I can pull from that without your consent, like artists have been doing with each other for as long as humans have been doing art. We pull from nature, internal ideas, and art from other artists. But yes. your point about davinci unraveled your whole argument against A.I. Because nobody wants to remember 7 years ago when A.I. couldn't even render a paved sidewalk or a pair of sneakers. It learned. It developed. It got good. It is what it is, and no amount of whining or bitching about it or wanting to get paid by tech companies will change that.