The AI Red Scare is only harming artists and needs to stop.

[Anon Adderlan]

So the convention I'm involved with recently declared all AI art to be bootlegs and that they will ban anyone on site for even promoting it. I of course brought up that by declaring a moral position as opposed to just a policy they were feeding into an ongoing conflict which was only harming artists.

one week later...


And here's an interview with Kamran Pasha, who is a member of The Writers Guild and virulently Anti-AI. Yet he both stated and clarified that it wasn't AI which cost writers jobs, but the actions of the guild itself. So much for unions benefitting their members.


These are just the latest examples I found, and enough harm has been done at this point that I'm no longer humoring the gaslighting. No, AI training is not theft. No, AI training is not a violation of copyright. No, you don't have a point if your response to AI taking jobs is to quit taking jobs yourself. Its use has become just another thing someone can be falsely accused of with little recourse. And if you really want to continue pushing for 'ethical' training, just remember that indies are unlikely to ever afford the rights to enough content to train on, while Big Tech already has rights to all the content they'll ever need. And even if indies did there's no way for them to prove it. I'll let you decide who benefits more from that state of affairs.

So if you're a game designer it doesn't matter if you're using AI, only that people think you are. And if they do you will be harassed online and banned from selling your products at conventions. Which is bad news for Dennis Detwiller as apparently he was exploiting temporal rifts to use AI in #DeltaGreen after all.

[Bundle for those interested]

 

[Umbran]

Moral panics, unfortunately, happen. They are a common fallout of human cognition.

Saying that such panic shouldn't happen, or has to stop, is equivalent to saying, "We should be much more rational than we are." Which is a great notion, but it gets hard to get a handle on practical solution.

 

[Divine2021]

No.

 

[Reynard]

Listen, a few other people's livelihoods is a small price to pay for the preservation of my moral superiority.

 

[Undrave]

The real culprit are the companies who stole work of art to train their models and then released it to the public. If they hadn't done that there would be no panic.

AI art generator only exist because capitalists don't want to pay the fair worth of artist's labor but still profit from it.

 

[Emberashh]

If the great gaggle of tech bros and the hapless stopped trying to call themselves artists because they can get a machine to spit out some stock imagery you'd solve like 50% of the problem.

What these things produce isn't art, so stop trying to force it.

 

[Morrus]

No, AI training is not a violation of copyright.

Yikes, dude. All those court cases going on! If only they knew they just needed to ask you.

 

[Moonmover]

AI training, at least the way it is done today, is absolutely a copyright violation.

That doesn't mean people's reactions to said violation is reasonable, though.

 

[Necropolitan]

AI training doesn't infringe copyright the same way stealing meat to make sausage isn't theft.

 

[Hand of Evil]

We are really talking about BOOBS