[namlem]

Is anyone reaping great profits off AI art? After all, it's not even copyrightable.

[simondw]

I think the idea is to profit off the generation of it, not the output works themselves.

[rf15]

Have you seen stock photo sites lately? Many of them happily claim they're real photos, too.

[denton-scratch]

People made money from creating art long before copyright was a thing. Copyright is not a pre-requisite for creative work.

[kazinator]

Copyright was made necessary by the emergence of the means of mass reproduction (printing presses, lithography).

[kazinator]

Rain doesn't have to generate money in order to kill your gig of delivering bottled water to the desert.