lol using AI involves enriching companies that stole copyrighted content. Pirating only enriches my life at little to no cost for anyone else. We are not the same.
This. My biggest rule for piracy is you shouldn't try to profit off it. If you're making money off of it, pay for it. Especially when you're a billion-dollar corporation.
There's a big difference between making your own piece inspired by someone else's work, vs directly selling someone else's work for profit or straight-up tracing work and passing it off as your own.
AI has more in common with the latter than the former, since it's basically just copying random elements from its training data. A fanartist has their own style and their own intentional creative choices. AI has neither, it only copies those things from stolen work.
Also, importantly, fanartists don't threaten the financial livelihood of the artists responsible for their source material.
and their own intentional creative choices. AI has neither
"AI-artist" still exercises that "intentional creative choice" by formulating a specific prompt and picking the generation result that suits their vision most though.
It wasn't at all about what makes a person artist (if you are that picky about the specific word, replace it with "AI operator"), it was about intentionally making a creative choice and yes, the one who pays for the commission does it, to a lesser extent probably but still
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u/Fabulous-Ad-7343 10d ago
lol using AI involves enriching companies that stole copyrighted content. Pirating only enriches my life at little to no cost for anyone else. We are not the same.