Raw LLM Responses

The human mind can only remember so many different things - there's an asymptotic limit to that, and no one is perfect at remembering them. Sam shows several instances in this video of people intentionally weaponizing (in an emotional sense) his style that he made and spent a non-trivial amount of time on. In nearly every instance of the product of these AI models being shared (after the backlash on the initial model's products), his name, his brand, and everything else is being associated with the models and generated images... despite the fact that he had nothing to do with them. The reason I started this response with my comment about memory is to simply highlight the fact that people are maliciously taking things that he made, and diluting the known pool of his work in bad faith after he asked them to stop. There is something so existentially awful about finishing a picture that you're proud of, then having someone immediately come forward with 50 other iterations of different scenes that stylistically look nearly identical (as a counterpoint, all of the arguments I see from artists about AI's lack of quality are completely dumb, boring and are outdated rapidly - AI is getting very good very quickly.) If a painter finishes 100 pieces in their lifetime, but there are another hundred thousand indistinguishable AI derivations that were made by a product trained exclusively on that person's work, the impact and perception of what they achieved in and the artistic impact they had in their life is diluted. We're in a transition period at the moment - there are lots of established artists with well-known styles and followings. Your argument might hold up for them, but the next generation will not have a chance to publicly establish their styles on their own organically. I've seen so many artists talk about the way to overcome this is "to do their best work and to have new fresh original thoughts". What happens the second someone makes something truly groundbreaking and 50 people all come and iterate it into infinity? That doesn't sound like equalization to me. That sounds like bad-faith personalized legacy destruction built on a predication of discarding the person who made the foundation it was built on. I don't mean any disrespect to you, but I don't find your argument compelling. Obviously, I have no idea what you do for a career - to just try and have more empathy, I want you to think of any achievement, regardless of magnitude, that you would accomplish any day at your given job. Maybe it's a nice powerpoint presentation, or an effective sales pitch, or you debugged a program you were working on, or you assembled drywall in a house you were building, or you successfully ran a scientific assay for research. Think of the accomplishment you might feel after that - You put hours in to reading scientific manuals, or going to business classes and learning how finances work, or practiced drywalling hundreds of rooms in new houses. Now I want you to imagine an intern immediately following your accomplishment with 10 other accomplishments of the same sort without having to even stand up. His all happen immediately, and he doesn't even stand up. All of his have the same final impact that yours do, but he never trained or has an understanding like how you do. Also, his feel really similar to yours. He doesn't understand what he just did, but still gets praise and notoriety for appearing to do what you did 10 times and infinitely faster. He's also laughing at you for the time you took. You offer to teach him, but he blows you off. That doesn't sound like an equalizer to me, that sounds like a personal hell. I make illustrations sometimes (hobby), and I personally have no interest in using an AI to come up with pictures, hatred or not. AI cannot give me what drawing gives me. Maybe overstepping here, but I have to admit that reading your comment makes it apparent you've never worked on an illustration that you're proud of for a long period of time. I honestly can't recommend you try it enough - learning illustration has given me so much, maybe it can give you something too! I've seen lots of people using AI claiming that artists have always gate-kept art. I'd love to open the gate here for you - Once you get over your hatred of it, you'll maybe come to love it!! We all want to be recognized for our achievements, and to be completely honest with you, I don't even particularly like Sam's style or how he approaches some of his art making - the subject matter is super saccharine, derivative, and just feels made to get the most clicks (hot chicks get clicks). What I do like is the amount of understanding, control, and work ethic that he puts into his pictures. Even if I don't like his subject matter, he deserves to have his work stand on its own - no one would have made an AI model of his work if it weren't at least somewhat interesting, memorable, or thought-provoking in the first place. Huge respect to you if you read through this, I'm just trying to build an understanding with you, not attack you in any way. Have a very Merry Christmas!