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Comment by bayindirh

6 months ago

What are your feelings about how the small fish is stripped of their arts, and their years of work becomes just a prompt? Mainly comic artists and small musicians who are doing things they like and putting out for people, but not for much money?

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protocolture  6 months ago

>Mainly comic artists and small musicians who are doing things they like and putting out for people, but not for much money?

The number of these artists I have seen receiving some bogus DMCA takedown notice for fan art is crazy.

I saw a bloke give away some of his STL's because he received a takedown request from games workshop and didnt have the funds to fight it.

Its not that I want small artists to lose, its that I want them to gain access to every bloody copyright and trademark so they are more free to create.

Shit Conde Nast managed to pull something like 400 pulps off the market, so they didnt interfere with their newly launched James Patterson collaborations.

tliltocatl  6 months ago

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  • bayindirh  6 months ago

    I think I have worded my question wrong. I asked about not about how AI affects the financials of these smaller artists, but their wellbeing in general.

    There are many small artists who do this not for money, but for fun and have their renowned styles. Even their styles are ripped off by these generative AI companies and turned into a slot machine to earn money for themselves. These artists didn't consent to that, and this affects their (mental) well-beings.

    With that context in mind, what do you think about these people who are not in this for money is ripped out of their years of achievement and their hard work exploited for money by generative AI companies?

    It's not about IP (with whatever expansion you prefer) or laws, but ethics in general.

    Substitute comics for any medium. Code, music, painting, illustration, literature, short movies, etc.

    • tliltocatl  6 months ago

      I see your point, "AI art" sucks in general and this is ethically sketchy as hell, but AIAK style copying has never been covered by copyright in the first place. Yea, it sucks to be alienated form your works. That's one of the externalites I mentioned in the original comment. But there is simply no remedy there. That's how the reality is.

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    • frozenseven  6 months ago

      (1) You can't copyright an art style. That's not a thing.

      (2) Once you make something publicly available, anyone can learn from it. No consent necessary.

      (3) Being upset does not grant you special privileges under the law.

      (4) If you don't like the idea of paying for AI art, free software is both plentiful and competitive with just about anything proprietary.

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