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@F_Baranger @cyanworlds I sympathize with you and other artists as workflows begin to incorporate these new AI tools, but you are screaming into a hurricane.

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds The AI was used by an Artist. It didn't "Steal" their work, it helped make it.

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds Yawn

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds AI does not ‘steal work’. It learns from work. If you paint, having been influenced by work you’ve seen all your life, are you ‘stealing’? People who think AI art is copying and pasting dataset works simply do not understand how AI works.

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds "AI tools" can mean a lot of different things. None of them _require_ the use of stolen content for training. Some of them don't use external training data at all. The tools are not unethical, it's some of their uses that is unethical.

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds As an artist, I beg to differ. There are ways in which you can use these technologies in an ethical way. I explain it further in this vid:

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds How did these artists learn to become artists? They learned from other artists. That's what AI is doing. It is not stealing from other artists, it is learning from them. And many of the Ai companies out there have switched to learning from only content that is public domain.

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds Cry more.

@F_Baranger @cyanworlds It works if you're feeding your own art into it. Can't steal from yourself.