The REAL Fight Over AI Art

I like your videos Cleo, but I think you missed an opportunity to ask the one question that has really made most artists angry and fearful for their future. These tools were trained using images created by artists who had absolutely no say in whether they wanted to be involved or not, and more importantly whose work is protected by copyright law (or should be, at least). Artists can spend a lifetime creeating a unique style or technique that becomes the reason they are hired or remembered, and the engineers who built this software have used that lifetimes work without consent, with no ability to opt-out of being infinitely replicated by a simple set of prompts. You needed to ask him why they felt it was ok to feed completely copyrighted datasets into these algorithms and not ask for permission first.

In any other industry this would be clamped down on by teams of litigators, but because of the ephemeral nature of how this all works to the average person, it will be very hard for any living artist to claim for damages to their income caused by this software taking their job opportunities away from them by software using their own hard-earned style to out-compete them!

This will all move at incredible speed and it is already too late to stop it. I don't think they have any idea what kind of damage this will cause, all because they never stopped to ask if it was ok first.