• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 years ago

    “Artists don’t deserve to profit off their own work” is stupid as shit. Complain about copyright abuse and lobbying a la Disney and I’ll be right there with you, but people shouldn’t have the right to take your work and profit off it without either your consent or paying you for it.

    Artists and other creatives who actually do work to create art (not shitting out text into an image generator) should take every priority over AI “creators.”

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          2 years ago

          “Artists don’t deserve to profit off their own work” is not what anyone said.

          Even if people can just take your shit and profit off it - so can you.

          This is not a complete rebuttal, but if you need the core fallacy spelled out, let’s go slowly.

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                Even if people can just take your shit and profit off it - so can you.

                What entitles someone to take another person’s work and profit off it?

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                  2 years ago

                  No.

                  The subject is intellectual property, in general.

                  Why am I not entitled to share culture?

                  Why am I not entitled to create, if similarity exists?

                  Why does someone get to own an idea, just because they wrote it down first?