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0 pointsdale_glass7mo ago0 comments

Worrying about that stuff is just a waste of time. Not because of what you said, but because it's all ultimately pointless.

Unless you believe this will kill AI, all it does is to create a bunch of data brokers.

Once fees are paid, data is exchanged, and models are trained, if the AI takes your job of programming/drawing/music, then it still does. We arrived at the same destination, only with more lawyers in the mix. You get to enjoy unemployment only knowing that lawyers made sure that at least they didn't touch your cat photos.

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bayindirh7mo ago

The thing is, if you can make sure that some of that your images/music/code aren't used for AI training, then you can be sure that you can continue doing what you do, because your personal style enables the specialty you can create.

Maybe you will lose some of your "territory" in the process, but what makes you, you will be preserved. Nobody will be able to ask "draw me a comic with these dialogue in the style of $ARTIST$".

dale_glassOP7mo ago

> The thing is, if you can make sure that some of that your images/music/code aren't used for AI training, then you can be sure that you can continue doing what you do, because your personal style enables the specialty you can create.

Personal styles are dime a dozen and of far lesser importance than you think.

Professionals will draw in any style, that's how we make things like games and animated movies. Even assuming you had some unique and incredibly valuable style, all it'd take to copy it completely legally is finding somebody else willing to copy your style to provide training material, and train on that.

bayindirh7mo ago

> Personal styles are dime a dozen and of far lesser importance than you think.

Try imitating Mickey Mouse, Dilbert, Star Wars, Hello Kitty, XKCD, you name it.

Randall will possibly laugh at you, but a legal company which happens to draw cartoons won't be amused and come after you in any way they can.

> Professionals will draw in any style...

Yep, after calling and getting permission and possibly paying some fees to you if you want. There's respect and dignity in this process.

Yet, we reduce everything into money. Treating machine code like humans and humans like coin-operated vending machines.

There's something wrong here.

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0 pointsdale_glass7mo ago0 comments

Worrying about that stuff is just a waste of time. Not because of what you said, but because it's all ultimately pointless.

Unless you believe this will kill AI, all it does is to create a bunch of data brokers.

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bayindirh7mo ago

Maybe you will lose some of your "territory" in the process, but what makes you, you will be preserved. Nobody will be able to ask "draw me a comic with these dialogue in the style of $ARTIST$".

dale_glassOP7mo ago

Personal styles are dime a dozen and of far lesser importance than you think.

bayindirh7mo ago

> Personal styles are dime a dozen and of far lesser importance than you think.

Try imitating Mickey Mouse, Dilbert, Star Wars, Hello Kitty, XKCD, you name it.

Randall will possibly laugh at you, but a legal company which happens to draw cartoons won't be amused and come after you in any way they can.

> Professionals will draw in any style...

Yep, after calling and getting permission and possibly paying some fees to you if you want. There's respect and dignity in this process.

Yet, we reduce everything into money. Treating machine code like humans and humans like coin-operated vending machines.

There's something wrong here.

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