• kazerniel@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      That was the point I was trying to make too. The question of “is it theft” is moot, it still causes harm.

      • novibe@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        10 hours ago

        But piracy is a MUCH smaller issue than theft. Piracy doesn’t deprive the original owner of any material thing. Piracy might decrease sales and profits (research actually says the opposite 🤷‍♂️).

        And we have no idea the actual material impact AI will have on the arts. From the reaction we’re seeing it might even make people turn more and more to physical hand crafted art.

        We’re already seeing that social media is favoring videos of artists’ processes much more than the final results.

        So yeah, no, I don’t see this situation as so much more terrible than theft. I really don’t understand how it could be.

        To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.

        • kazerniel@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          6 hours ago

          To me it seems the main issue is not even AI, it’s capitalism. If artists didn’t need to sell their art to survive, we wouldn’t even have this discussion.

          Absolutely. It seems like 90% of the issues we have in society is because of this fucked-up economic system :/