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Honestly, it's about how to best ethically use AI. Personally I fear that people only see this as another "hustle" among the hundreds they could have, don't appreciate the effort in art, and that it has a very real chance of LIMITING creativity. At least creativity as we know it. In the next few years a creative person might just be someone who knows which buttons to press (since chat gpt can spit out both a prompt and settings to fine tune that prompt) to get the best result--which would be hell just imagine it: "1-2-done, there a picasso derivative-that would be 400 dollars, 20 for the physical labour, and 380 for knowing which buttons to press. NEXT!" I mean the only people who honestly think this makes art more accessible are people whom have had that creativity beaten/trained/conditioned out of them since it really isn't all that useful in a society that values profit over everything. Supposedly, In Baltimore there is a museum dedicated to self-taught artist with no formal training, such as a a prisoner learning to knit and make impressive embroidery by using only the strings in his socks as material. Art being accessible has never been an issue, people will always find a way-remember macaroni art? The issue is people's not being able to use their creativity or being allowed the time to explore what they are capable of, and I fear AI will eliminate that the same we most people don't know their loved ones phone number, how to search for things, and how to get to certain area without google map. Efficiency isn't always better, that's how you get Thano's thinking the best way to save everyone is by killing half the population--is it efficient? You betcha! Is it ethical? Sam Altman: "does it matter if it works?" Also, I think you are looking at copyright the wrong way. Don't get me wrong, I think what you said about it is on point--especially with the doujinshi market, but look at your own use case for your OC or the knockoff films you talked about. These "lazy" creations were instantly caught by others who knew what the original was and who owns the copyright of that original. It forces people to be a bit more creative to stand out-which is actually to the benefit of people who take inspiration of the original. Take a look at Hotel Transylvania, it easily could have been another dracula knockoff...instead we got a coming of age tale where monsters learned that human's aren't so bad set in a hotel for monsters where the owner dealt with loss and react strongly to that loss, and it spun a few sequels. Also, copyright does expire and go into free domain after a given period, this addresses how people use these works such as myths that is in our collective knowledge. Could you imagine Greece trying to sue Rick Riordan? And about your example of the doujinshi market, it actually is ILLEGAL in Japan-the difference is that the copyright owner and the License holders of that copyright CHOOSE not to sue because they see an inherit benefit to letting the market exist. It benefits the copyright holder because it keeps both their work AND NAME relevant in the eyes of the audience while also allowing the next generation of mangakas to practice and refine their crafts to eventually be able to sell an original manga of their own-so it's getting experience and making a small living doing so. A lot of mangakas got their start like this. Also, doujinshis allows people who browse these markets to find something that would lead them back to the original of which they would have never heard of. I actually got to experience this myself online, and enjoy the original work and learned more about the creators and other works they did--this is something AI doesn't do, and the inner conspiracist in me thinks this is by design. So the culture behind copyright usage should be changed, like in that example of Disney going after a school for using Disney characters--if they allowed it they won't get any short term benefit but they would gain long term future customers who were exposed to those characters early on. Sadly with ai, I feel that there won't be a benefit to NOT using copyright in the manner Disney does if artists can't survive. [edit] I forgot I already commented on this vid a month ago, weird it feels brand new to me.