Is nuclear power the solution to climate change?
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Í think AI art is not stealing someone else's art
You're conflating "using training data" with "theft." That's the entire sleight of hand here. Human artists train on millions of images too, yet we don't call that theft. The real question is output. Does AI art produce genuinely novel combinations, or does it regurgitate memorized patterns? Early evidence suggests memorization happens. But even if it didn't, your argument dodges the actual crime: training systems on copyrighted work without permission or compensation. That's copyright infringement at scale, not some philosophical gray zone. So which claim are you actually defending, the training or the output?
It doesn't matter the way AI trains, its not the definition of stealing, if AI trains on thousands of images and takes various examples to make art, if someone asked the Ai to create a Disney image of The Simpsons, it isn't stealing, its still a new art that was probably repeated by multiple people, if the logic that training on various arts is stealing, than you have to also apply humans also inspiring from disney style to create a simpson art
You're hiding behind "inspiration" when the mechanics are fundamentally different. Humans internalize principles through conscious observation, then create from memory and skill. AI systems are fed millions of copyrighted images, extract statistical patterns from that exact data, then generate outputs that often contain recognizable elements from training sources. That's not inspiration, it's pattern extraction from a dataset built without consent. Your Disney-Simpsons example proves my point: if an AI produces something visually identical to existing work, you've exposed the real problem. Humans can't do that by accident. AI does it systematically. The scale and mechanism matter, not just the end result.
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