[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Not really. There’s a difference between not “don’t pay the human responsible for making this work despite their objections” and “don’t pay a human because we don’t need them.” The former case is how these models came about.

[bethecloud]

If you don't want people seeing your art and learning from it, then why would you post it on the internet in the first place?

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Are you saying that they intended for it to be used this way? Because it's straightforward to see whether this outcome matches their intent. Just look at all the uproar in the artist communities that were scraped.

[bethecloud]

I don't see why intent of the artist matters.

As a human, I have a natural right to take inspiration from content, use facts I learn from books, concepts from art, jokes from movies, etc.

Don't see why using a machine to augment/extend this capability is any different