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by _heimdall 636 days ago
Are you concerned that this approach will lead to the abandonment of an open web?

If AI companies, and whatever comes next, are expected to take advantage of everything shared online, regardless of copyrights, it seems reasonable that people will stop sharing most things of value.

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If you never display your work online, you’ll probably never gain any traction as an artist.
I'd be concerned with getting traction if my art is online and anyone can feasibly copy my style.

Maybe that's unimportant and no different than being able to make physical copies, though good forgeries haven't always been so easily done and the forgery is meant to be an identical copy of the original work. It could just be me, but the idea of an attempted identical copy of a well known work feels different than a new creation being passed off as the work of a well known artist. For example, you can claim to have a really god copy of the Mona Lisa but that wouldn't be as valuable as claiming you have a previously unknown, unique work from the artist.