Raw LLM Responses

​@emmita224 Thank you for this reaction, and I can read past the errors just fine :). I think that there's a lot right in your answer. But it is mostly what I'm saying too. There certainly is cause for concern and it is disrupting an industry to at least some extent. I'm no longer active myself as an artist / graphic designer, so I definately have to admit that I am not capable of seeing the full scope. I do however think that there is a place for generative AI. Which is what I'm talking about in my post. I think that generative AI opens possibilities for people that have vision but can't realise it. I'l give an (oversimplified) example. If you are a writer and want to illustrate your book you might hire an artist, but what if you aren't known yet and have no money for this kind of commission. Or if you simply can't get your vision clear to the artist in question. You might want to use generative AI for this. And I very much agree that copying someones style or work, especially for commercial purposes is just bad. I think that learning from others work is fine. This is how artists themself learn the trade, but any form of copying is just copyright infringement and stealing someones hard earned pennies. That should be cracked down on and artists that have the same issue as my broke writer in the example should be helped in some capacity to legally fight copycats. AI or other. I think that there is a larger problem with all sorts of companies just ripping into artists work and using it on a walpaper print or "slap it on a plastic lunchbox and sell it". This is happening for years already and it's very literally robbing artists from their income. As for the addition of a clause in the EULA of midjourney.. It's a start. It's not the end all be all. Having such a clause will deter some people. That is a small win. A positive thing. Don't flame them for at least doing something. It's better then nothing. It's not enough, and there are more they should do... But this takes time and effort. Legal research, building tools etc. are expensive and complicated things. Even if Midjourney would be a wholesome goody two shoes company that just didn't realise that people are asshats, they still need time to implement this. Hindsight is 20/20. But to come back to the real problem. I think it's underestimated how much corporate greed is ruining everything. Even if all the complaints of artists were 150% valid, it's nothing compared to what is going on in the land of the mega-rich, corpies and shareholders. And it's a problem that can't be just defined by appointing a guilty person and crucifying him / her. It's become a problem of shareholders, that don't really feel responsible for anything but wanting a big fat paycheck, causing corporations to go nuts in every way to just please those shareholders. Otherwise they go broke, even if they are a gennerally healthy company... So the environment, the consumers, the law... All must bow to the great shareholder that probably doesn't even realise that he/she causes this. And in the land of politics people all around the world are voting for the biggest populists around. The ones that just blatantly lie to them and promise them golden mountains and don't want to vote for anyone that supports the common cause. Someone like Donald Trump doesn't care about you, the truth or anything but his own big fat wallet... But he's just one of the examples.. Half of Europe now has right wing leaders too... Anyway. I think that you are not wrong, and you have the right to be mad of course, but please... think about what is really the problem. It's not AI, that's just a thing.. And it won't kill artistry in the end... As long as we all work together and make sure that the big corps don't play us out against each other and is the laughing third in the background. If we all make a fist together and direct our anger towards that.... Boy, could the world be a better place...