On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by skydhash on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @01:49AM (#39024138)

> Imagine someone came up with a way to print houses for nearly-free. Anyone needs shelter? Bam, instant house.

Money is just paper. And now with cashless systems, it's now only bits on some computers. But no one sane wants to maximize everyone accounts or print cash to hand out. Art takes hours, days, even years or human labor to produce. Copyright laws set an artificial scarcity, because if it can be replicated at no cost, there's no way for the author to recoup the cost of production.

In the analogy you provided, you'd still have to deal with land scarcity and environmental impact.

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Re:On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train... by shadowgovt on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:13AM (#39029663)

> Art takes hours, days, even years or human labor to produce

Well, depending on whether one considers the output of one of the AI image diffusion algorithms "art"... Not anymore, right? That's rather the point of the debate? That we've gone over a few decades from a world of "This wall is blank. Maybe I'll go to the art show and find a piece someone made, or commission a piece based on an idea in my head" to "This wall is blank. Maybe I'll spend two hours futzing with DALL-E and send the result off to a local print-shop, then pop it over to Michael's and frame it?"

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