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Re:Microsoft Designer by Dalewyn on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:20AM (#35068124)
>When Microsoft, a billion dollar global software firm, can profit by generating these images I must ask if they are the ones that worked for such reward.

The vast majority of the image generation crowd are (surprise surprise) adamantly against paying artists for training materials.

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Re:Microsoft Designer by max51 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @10:40AM (#35070341)
>The vast majority of the image generation crowd are (surprise surprise) adamantly against paying artists for training materials.

that's because it would be literally impossible to give them any amount of money that would make a difference for the artist. It would cost hundreds of billions to train a new model. At that point, it would be simpler to just make AI dev illegal because the effect would be the same.

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