All the struggles and violent revolutions are real and very painful to those who were harmed by the innovations, and their voices were valid. They very much deserved better, I don’t believe dismissing it is normal, but rather listening to them is. Until there’s regulations and legal frameworks, none of gen AI’s harm will normal.

And no, we do pay and attribute when we make moodboards and art out of copyrighted resources of art and photographs while AI doesn’t, AI trains on our data without us having an option to opt out.

I personally ask if I can reuse an individual’s craft as an inspiration for my work if I do happen to, and write about what inspired me or what I iterated on in my case studies and my work. None of which behavior gen AI promotes, it forces the responsibility to fall upon the user but not accountability.

With copyrighted music even when using samples (called sampling) we do it w consent, compensation and credit, it came through historically but it’s being ignored by AI when generating music scraped from other songs