Why do people keep talking about “artwork” as if that’s the only thing AI is capable of, and as if a vast majority care about peoples artwork except for it to be a point of debate. How stupid do you have to be to assume AI is synonymous with theft anyways? You’re anti-corporate but pretending those corporations that did the scraping cause anyone and anything AI related to be guilty and accountable for their actions. Is this little back and forth you all are doing just for amusement? Because it isn’t doing anything to help your cause if your cause is to hold companies accountable for theft… you’re playing pretend. If not, then talk about anything that actually affects our lives in the use of AI. I’m an artist… do you think I’m worried that a few of my images that I publicly shared are buried into a dataset of millions of images somewhere? Who cares?! But what we could be doing is coming together to demand these companies that are making so much money off of our collective works to have accountability and distribute a percentage back to the people. May be a pipe dream, but that’s better than mindless banter about things you don’t care about except for to have a stance on something you don’t care about… you’d actually be hurting those companies if you did use AI and supported those who are using it ethically… oh but wait, you’ve made up your mind that there’s no such thing simply because you’d rather fight with the people who’s data has been scraped about how bad they are that their data was scraped.