Comment by zer00eyz

> Do we want a society where everyone can masquerade as an “artist”, flooding society with low-quality content using AI trained on the work product of actual artists?

Change the statement to: Do we want a society where everyone can masquerade as an “photographer”, flooding society with low-quality photos using cell phones, never having to learn to develop film, or use focus, or understand lenses...

Do we want a society where everyone can masquerade as an “painter”, flooding society with low-quality paintings because acrylics are cheap, the old masters made their own paint after all...

Why does it matter how it was created? It wasn't Bob Ross's "Joy of Making Incredible Art", it was simply the "Joy of Painting".

And people do enjoy content that, for lack of a better word, is disposable. Look at the "short dramas" or "vertical dramas" industry that is making money hand over fist. The content isnt high brow, but people enjoy it all the same.

> AI trained on the work product of actual artists?

Should we teach people how to play guitar without using the songs of other artists? Should those artists be compensated for inspiring others?

Some of this is an artifact of our ability to sell reproductions (and I would argue that the economics were all around distribution).

There is a long (possibly decades) conversation that were going to have on this topic.