/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6384243
>copyrighting styles
That's not the issue, and it never has been. The issue is that your work has been stolen, fed into an AI meatgrinder, and the resulting soup used to make new images. It's the same issue you run into when someone photobashes or traces your artwork- your own property is being used directly to make the resulting product. It's one thing to be a hack or a copycat- despite being rightly looked down upon, that isn't illegal (and shouldn't be). It's entirely another thing to take someone's actual work and use it directly.
>inb4 some techbro pajeet fa/g/got says "but da ay eye is learning like an AKSHOOAL HYUMAN BEAN DOES, it's not copying!!!!"
It isn't. It's a machine learning algorithm, that is taking what it's trained on and transforming it in a purely mathematical way. It's not magic, it's not a genie, it's not sentient or able to "think" in any way. If it were, it would be a general intelligence, and would necessitate the discussion of far more dire issues.

>>6382716
"artists" be like "I draw aynimey like a toddler and i'm a real artist"