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Artists, please help me understand the issue with AI (lemmy.world)

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I heard a bunch of explanations but most of them seem emotional and aggressive, and while I respect that this is an emotional subject, I can't really understand opinions that boil down to "theft" and are aggressive about it.

while there are plenty of models that were trained on copyrighted material without consent (which is piracy, not theft but close enough when talking about small businesses or individuals) is there an argument against models that were legally trained? And if so, is it something past the saying that AI art is lifeless?

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[-] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Death of the author is the idea that reader interpretation matters more than author's intent, and it's absolutely fair for media analysis. Sadly, too many people bundle it together with the idea that the author didn't mean anything at all.

Heck, "the curtains were blue" applies authorial intent that there was no meaning behind the curtains. The death of the author reading shows that the curtains had a symbolic reason to be blue.

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