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Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Businesses that rely on creatives should probably avoid angering them.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Prompting a machine isn't creating art any more than commissioning an artist is creating art. Writers still had to actually write books to print, AI removes everything between the initial idea and the final product.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a thousand Benedictine monks who said the same thing at the thought of an unadorned, unillustrated stack of paper stapled together.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

You'd have a point if the printing presses only put out randomized, meaningless chicken scratch, but instead you're conflating how art is presented with the art itself.