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And they themselves trained on the work of other artists too. It's just the circle of life. AI just happens to be better at learning than humans.
AI doesn't need defending, it fill steamroll us all just by itself. We don't really have a choice in this.
The "circle of life" except that it kills the artists' careers rather than creating new ones. Even fledgling ones might find that there's no opportunity for them because AIs are already gearing to take entry-level jobs. However efficient AI may be at replicating the work of artists, the same could be said of a photocopier, and we laws to define how those get to be used so that they don't undermine creators.
I get that AI output is not identical and its output doesn't go foul under existing laws, but the principles behind them are still important. Not only Culture but even AI itself will be lesser for it if human artists are not protected, because art AIs quickly degrade when AI art is fed back into it en masse.
Don't forget that the kind of AI we have doesn't do anything by itself. We don't have sentient machines, we have very elaborate auto-complete systems. It's not AI that is steamrolling artists, it's companies seeking to replace artists with AIs trained on their works that are threatening them. That can't be allowed.
It will kill all the ones that are stuck on old technology. Those that can make the best use of AI will prevail, at least for a little while, until AI replaces the whole media distribution chain and we'll just have our own personal Holodeck with whatever content we want, generated on demand.
It's not copying existing works and never did. Even if you explicitly instruct it to copy something existing, it will create its own original spin on the topic. It's really no different than any artist working on commission.
You are free to ignore the reality of it, but that's simply not the case. AI systems are getting filled with essentially all of human knowledge and they can remix it freely to create something new. This is the kind of stuff AI can produce just by itself, within seconds, the idea is from AI and so is the actual image. Sentience is not necessary for creativity.
When the artists are that easy to replace, their work can't have been all that meaningful to begin with.
Lemmy is full of Luddite Twitter artist types. It’s an echo chamber in here.