You paid your own money for every single copyright work you’ve ever seen in your life?

I never claimed this distinction, and I don’t think it’s a meaningful point.

I’m saying that I pay for art. These companies don’t, but more to the point, they seek to undermine their source once they’ve extracted all the training data they need. I’d go so far as to say it’s in poor taste to use free art, because it should be patently obvious that most artists putting out free art, did not anticipate its use by devices that let you bypass artists entirely.

There’s an alternate way that this could have all gone down: after some internal testing, we could have simply asked artists to volunteer their work for the project of training. There are enough people excited about the tech that this would have been plenty! It just wouldn’t have let companies rush for market share, and hope the business utility would gloss over any ethical qualms in the aftermath.

Yeah I paid for em too

There is enough freely licensed content to make whatever you want. I have no trouble at all making websites and comic books and video games using freely licensed content.

Why not just use free use content? There’s plenty of it. More than ever before in human history

They thought the party was going to last forever, so they ordered a bunch of jumbo pizzas and kegs

I mean it’s more like they paid themselves a bunch of bonuses and hired super duper growth hacking experts or whatever, and now they can’t pay for them, so god forbid they cut from the top

wtf godless region do you live in?? Never heard of this kind of behaviour.

Well you’ve still got the press the latinum in something, so that’s at one use

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