Backlash against AI art comes across to me as reactionary thrashing against a thing which threatens to upset the stability of "artists" as a class of people with no principled stepping back to think about whether maybe hating peoples' expanding agency because it makes them less dependent on you is evil. Intellectual property is incoherent + evil (and even if I believed in it this is clearly fair use) yet it is probably somehow the _least_ inane post-hoc justification I've seen for hating AI art.
@5f31c0 To me, the AI Art backlash ultimately seems to be saying "my art is for self-expression, communication, and (in some cases) marketing to other humans -- this mechanical way of using my work which is indifferent to my humanity and economically adversarial is an ethical violation."
Intellectual property is just the closest thing ppl reach for when trying to express that.
@humanisque hmm yeah, thanks for your thought, it seems right