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Can you go elaborate on this concept of baristacore? I'm guessing you mean something broader than Legends and Lattes?

WereAllMadHereon A journey into Kindle AI slop hell

I don't think there's a comparison between the AI book scraping and the generated covers.

One is using a tool to create a new artwork, one is using a tool for plagiarism.

WereAllMadHereon The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

What about someone who needs a wheelchair but is conveniently successful?

WereAllMadHereon On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

The entire point of the patent system was to say inventors can put their design on the net without it being stolen; so future inventors can build on their work.

WereAllMadHereon On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

For example, how many artists drawing street scenes credit the designer at Ford Motors for teaching them what a generic car looks like? How many even know which designers created their mental model of a car?

WereAllMadHereon On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

Visual artists cannot create without tools. Whether that tool is a brush and paint, a camera, or a neural network.

Whether an artist pays for a subscription to openAI or buys paint pots on Amazon.com money is going to a billionaire, it is not a difference between ai and other art.

You are also ignoring the existence of non-commercial open source AI, they exist.

Regarding copyright, we copyright output not input. Otherwise most photography would be uncopyrightable.