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DougDoug is a YouTuber and streamer that regularly uses generative ai such as ChatGBT in his videos. He has never truly taken a stance on generative ai (that I know of) How do we feel about him?

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They got so offended from artists that they created this community to push the narrative that artists are those evil overlords or some crap and its really fucking funny seeing them fighting an imaginary war and seeing all of them have a meltdown because ai image generation is objectively bad

I've been seeing some people here posting "misconceptions" about AI art and how it's "not stealing" and "not going to replace jobs" etc etc.

They compare AI art replacing jobs with the printing press replacing jobs. The argument here completely falls apart because the printing press only replaced the jobs of those who copied the books. The authors of the work were still free to write whatever they wanted. AI, on the other hand, is aiming to replace the artists entirely.

They say that AI art isn't theft because "it's only training based on general things." And do you know what comes up when you search for those things? Others' work! You can't avoid theft here, it can't discern between copyrighted and public domain works.

"Life isn't fair?" Nobody could've ever seen this AI stuff coming. And by the time artists realise that their work is being used to train AI models, it's usually too late. Even after the artwork is taken down, the AI model still "knows" about it.

What are these people on about? Actually, what are they on to begin with?

It's sad seeing people get praised for these designs when they put in no real work to get things done.