Being able to fairly monetise your creative work and put food on the table is a bit rivalrous though, don’t you think?
The way societies work is that the members of the society contribute and benefit in prescribed ways. Societies with lots of excess production may at times choose to allow creative works to be monetized. Societies without much surplus are extremely unlikely to do so, eg a society with not enough food for everyone to eat in the middle of a famine is extremely unlikely to feed people who only create art; those people will have to contribute in some other way.
I think it is a very modern western idea (less than a century old) that many artists can dedicate themselves solely to producing the art they want to produce. In all other times artists either had day jobs or worked on commission.
Can you list the principles across human civilizations?
Of course you can. Anyone can say anything.
Is “keeping the list of principles a secret” a principle like the rules of Fight Club? It is not unreasonable to ask for a link or summary of this immutable set of ground truths.
> What principle do you claim exists to contradict that claim?
I could not answer this question without being able to double check. The only principle that comes to mind is the principle of ligma
What does that have to do with rivalry? This doesn't dispute the idea that AI is indeed competing with artists. You're just saying artists don't deserve to get paid.
Regardless, some artists will give up but some will simply be more careful with where and how they post their art with tools like these. AI doesn't have a right to the artist's images neither.