AI Art Isn't Theft. Here's Why:
Channel: daniel torres
Date: 2023-01-30

AI art seems problematic. Giant companies sweep the internet for billions of images, feed them to the all-consuming algorithm that then learns to produce art on its own. Depending on who you ask, this is either one of humanity’s greatest creations or nothing more than brazen theft. The AI can even reproduce artists’ individual styles, living or deceased, sometimes leaving the amalgamations of signatures from the artist’s it’s been trained on. AI art is quickly becoming an existential threat for the livelihoods of millions of artists who dedicate themselves to the craft. While the technology isn’t quite at the level of fully replacing artists, it’s advancing fast. Which makes this pretty serious. After all, what could you make as an individual, that a machine trained on the works of every human artist in history can’t do on its own? Especially when it can whip out an image in a couple minutes that would take you hours, day if not weeks. Just another case of big business screwing over creative workers… right? *ahem* Right? 

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