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This is not one artist inspiring another. This is all artists providing their work for free to immensely capitalized corporations for the corporations sole profit.

People keep making metaphors as if the AI is an entity in this transaction: it’s not! The AI is only the mechanism by which corporations launder IP.

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>This is all artists providing their work for free to immensely capitalized corporations for the corporations sole profit.

No, the artists would be within their rights to do that if they chose to. This is corporations taking all the work of all artists regardless of the terms under which it was provided.

Would it change your view if only open-source models were allowed to use the art in their training sets? What if a "capitalized corporation" starts using the open-source model?

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