I feel sympathy for the artists, and who knows what jobs AI will leave!
But I don't think the artists I'm seeing on Twitter understand that, even in their best case, where training on a copyright image is considered total infringement, this genie still isn't going back in the bottle.
Models are getting better and training more efficient all the time.
Soon you'll be able to train a model entirely on public domain content and have great generative art output.
It might be harder to express the style you want than just sharing a name of an artist in that style, but that won't hold things back.
With this worldview the discussion about whether training on something is infringing its copyright fast becomes irrelevant, for better or worse.
Absolutely true. It won't be long before models trained on purely public domain works will be able to oneshot style transfer from a piece of art fed to it.
We need IP law reform and UBI/strong social safety net, the problem isn't automation, it's that we allow people to own the automation and charge rent on it.
But I don't think the artists I'm seeing on Twitter understand that, even in their best case, where training on a copyright image is considered total infringement, this genie still isn't going back in the bottle.
Models are getting better and training more efficient all the time.
Soon you'll be able to train a model entirely on public domain content and have great generative art output.
It might be harder to express the style you want than just sharing a name of an artist in that style, but that won't hold things back.
With this worldview the discussion about whether training on something is infringing its copyright fast becomes irrelevant, for better or worse.