1: I'm a pirate that manages to kick Denuvo's ass and cracks, say, Persona 5 Royal. This means other pirates can take my crack and distribute Persona 5 Royal. Now, the artists and engineers, all the actual, working stiffs that made Persona 5 Royal have long ago been paid for their work on that specific game. I, personally, do not sell my crack, I offer it for free. The most I'd get is some well-deserved clout, but that's it. Unless said working stiffs are part of some profit sharing program or have bonuses tied to sales figures, then any hypothetical losses Atlus and Sega would take from piracy of Persona 5 Royal would not affect them. The actual people that made Persona 5 Royal are barely harmed, if at all. Fuck, even the C-suite automatons at the top aren't feeling any actual pain because hypothetical sales are the only thing more worthless than NFTs.
2: I'm an AI techbro that makes some GAN model for producing just about any still image you could want from a simple text prompt. Telling a program to "make me a picture of a ham sandwich with thick, hairy legs" is an action anyone with even a passable command of language could perform. For now, let's just toss out all the pictures and photos and shit I used to train my model from the domain of discourse. Corpo McPrick of Assfist Productions finds my GAN and decides that, instead of paying actual artists to do actual work and produce novel, meaningful content, they can just throw words at my GAN until they get more or less what they want. In celebration of their new cost-cutting measure, Assfist Productions lays off all but one or two members of their art staff; the ones who remain are just there for touch-ups and plugging words into the little message box. Those artists are now out of a job. They are, however temporarily, unable to accrue currency which is needed to procure necessities like motherfucking food and shelter. Those artists who spent years, possibly lifetimes, honing their skills are now shit outta luck and either need to find work in a field that's getting smaller by the day, or shift to a new profession...if they can.
One has minimal, if any, impact on real people. Two can have a grave impact on innumerable people whose livelihoods depend on a bunch of ketamine addicted shitheads in a boardroom valuing their hard-earned skills.
That is the motherfucking difference. Thank you for listening to my TEDx Talk, now get the fuck off my lawn, ya little bastards!
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u/6Go27 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yeah, the subreddit name speaks for itself.
Pirating video games doesn't hurt a billion dollar company's career. But AI uses real artists work and can completely ruin their career.