@susan77 I disagree. That's like saying the photograph steals from real life art if someone takes a picture of a statue in a park. Granted, there's a human behind the camera's function. But I do think AI can be a tool for artists with their own work. They could receive a request for a piece and use AI to use their own art portfolio to help generate a few ideas for a client and then create a work themselves based on feedback.
That is fundamentally ethical, as the artist is using their own work.
"AI" image generators
@kitroe @susan77 That is not how this technology works. If you were to train it only on your own work, it would produce useless output. It *requires* training on massive datasets (that are impossible to collect ethically) to work well enough; the images you give it yourself are the prompt, not the training data.
In other words: by the time you download an image generator, someone else has already done the training on unethically collected data. The code in and of itself doesn't do anything, it's the training data that makes it work.
