But, even if she did have a distinctive style, there is nothing illegal or unethical about learning that style and producing your own similar artwork, whether you call it “in the style of”, or not.
> But, even if she did have a distinctive style
This is some rough criticism of an artist who's dedicated their profession and life to art.
> is (nice, but)
This made it all OK!
In fact, the better they get the less likely they are to be unique as more people will imitate their style.
For example if you just started strength training, have been at it for just a few weeks and someone said "you're not very strong" that's not harsh criticism because you just started, but if you've been strength training for 10-20 years and someone said "you're not very strong" that criticism hits different right?
Does it make sense what I am saying now?
This artist will probably read these HN comments, and I'm struck by how cruel the comments are to someone who's just out there creating wonderful content, didn't ask for any of this, so many of you here do not care about how she feels.
I also call into question the ability of these HN commenter's competence at critiquing art.
If she reads it, hopefully she understands the lens of the language. Her style is good, and evidently assiduous.
Everything said remains relevant.
Maybe she’s closer to the origin of the style than most?
Anyway I spent all my life writing code and I’m not upset when someone uses patterns I came up with, especially if they credit me.
Why should I credit you? I don't need to credit you, why should I feel the need to credit you? AI produced the product. You'd feel pretty annoyed right?
I have a tiny issue with those systems if/when they output certain memorized content. But that’s a type of bug, which can be avoided.
Also I didn’t say I want credit when someone copies my coding style. But if I was being credited, as this woman is being implicitly credited, I would have even less than no reason to complain.
I have roughly a hundred git repos. Do I care if somebody based an AI autocomplete off my code? Not even a little bit, I've never given a shit if somebody steals bits and pieces of my code because that's like if I lifted a few paragraphs out of a book somebody wrote, who cares if the book that I'm producing is fundamentally different?
I take pride in what I write. I don't write it for someone to come and steal it. Sure if I had posted my code online, than I can expect it to be copy & paste but not for the usage of AI.
Good point. As the article itself says, her style is explicitly based on Disney. This isn't like, say, Cubism, a style (intentionally) very different from the contemporary norm, and nothing like anything that had come before.