Yeah we all hear the main arguments… AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly… how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I’m asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
do you make art?
I understand copyright law is what allows individual artists to make a living under the currently dominant ideology, it still doesn’t change the fact that materially it doesn’t make sense and it’s an entirely ideological construct. Even today under capitalism electronic devices, storage on those devices and bandwidth to get data to those devices via the Internet is really cheap, this is proven by the fact that lots of people in extremely poor countries have smartphones and an Internet connection even when they don’t have basic amenities like proper healthcare or education. The vast majority of the world population can have pretty much any kind of digital art in the palm of their hands very quickly for essentially free, the current material conditions allow for this, it is why piracy exists, it exists because it easily can exist.
Copyright law is here only to impose the dominant ideology onto the essentially post-scarcity digital world and for that to happen it needs to introduce significant inefficiencies in the distribution of digital goods that are materially extremely cheap to reproduce after the initial cost of making them.
its not about that though. some people here are arguing that AI art is not theft…
If you believe in intellectual property, you got a lot to unlearn. Try this, it snapped me out of it:
https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html
even north korea signed into some sort of intellectual property laws
Ok but what’s the gameplan here for artists exactly? Cat’s out of the bag, I don’t think it’s realistic that big AI companies are going to dole out royalties to millions of random artists around the world they stole from. Even if there’s political will to do this how would you even begin to calculate which artist gets which slice of the cake.
The only other course of action within a capitalist framework is literally just ludditism, which might not even be a bad idea short term but in the end it’s still a reactionary position even if it’s grounded in real material concerns.
the move is to make AI art not copyrightable so nobody gets rich off it. do you support AI art or not?
Of course we won’t copyright it, we’re anti-copyright
I would support using AI for plenty of things, art included. Most commissioned art today isn’t exactly soul shaking stuff teeming with creativity and emotion, it’s corporate graphics, design templates, ads, assets for video games etc, I personally don’t have a problem with using AI for that the same way I don’t have a problem with my clothes being made with sewing machines.
As with everything else, the problem isn’t the technology it’s the economic system.
Also I don’t think many people are profiting off of copyrighted AI art directly unless it’s in service to those other things I mentioned.
you should try using a sewing machine before comparing it to AI
Read it.
I’ve made spritework for my game, and it’s all freely redistributable because that is the only ethical choice
Everyone makes art.
I have a 3d paper plane I designed myself, for example.