I agree completely. I don’t think there’s enough talk about the ethics of just grabbing someone else’s entire online art portfolio and putting it in a program that generates more like it without even letting the artist know. And then they’ll try and argue that artists are all influenced by other artists, yeah, that’s true, we tend to like being emulated by other fellow human artists, what we don’t like is being mechanically ripped off for commercial purposes without credit, compensation, not even permission by an AI.

It could be great if we could direct these developments towards automating certain menial tasks that artists don’t really like to do, but no, this is trying to get rid of the artist altogether.