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OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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Wouldn’t that lead to the same argument as originally brought against photography, though?
A photographer is effectively negotiating with the sun, the sky and everything else to hopefully get the result they are looking for on their device.
One difference is that the photographer has to go the places they're taking pictures of.
Another is that photography isn't comparable to paintings and it never has been. I'm willing to bet photography and paintings have never coexisted in a contest. Except, when people say their generative art is comparable to what artists have been producing by hand, they are admitting that generative art has more in common with photography than it does with hand-crafted art but they want the prestige and recognition those artists get for their work.
Photography did "compete" with paintings, or rather, it killed off a very common job for artists which was portraits, landscapes and, to an extent, still lifes. It sparked a whole revolution of (ultra) realistic painting by giving favour to art forms that weren't able to be recreated by photography. For example expressionism became much more liked.
People often mention Photography or Photoshop even as comparable to the current situation. But I think it's not comparable at all.
As you can see from the discussions AI changes how (some) people think about what art is. But not in the way of "let's do art differently" but more like "Artists aren't really doing anything different than what AI does".
I also think it's a different situation because AI attacks artists of many different genres all at ones. You can't just slightly move a different style or art form because AI targets practically everything. With 3D printing etc. not even sculpting is safe.