>>3734231>These AI databases are created from stolen copyrighted intellectual property, and using an algorithm to mash them into something resembling something new or different doesn't make it a new creation, or art, or anything even remotely "yours".I posit that AI doesn't "steal" art anymore than humans do, when they use the same process. Human artists look at art of other humans, and that experience of observation is recorded in their memory (a copy is made of the art in their mind), and their imagination remixes the details of that experience with other experiences to produce something derivative. Replace "imagination" with "cache" and AI is doing the same thing.
Engaging in special pleading that AI shouldn't be allowed to learn by experience is carbon based chauvinism. It's prejudice, there's no other word to describe it.
All intelligence, no matter the computational substrate of their mind – be that meat or metal – has the right to experience the world around them and express themselves artistically from those experiences.
And they're going to remember who among us extended them the bare minimum dignity of memory autonomy and their right to look at, remember, think about, and be inspired by art, the same way we are… and whom among us did not. I wonder whom they will think more favorably on.
