I’m probably not the best person to be arguing about this thing but I think there’s broader context that needs to be accounted for here. In an ideal world where AI art doesn’t impact peoples’ livelihood because their livelihood doesn’t depend on selling their art to capitalists my position would likely be pretty neutral. It’s another tool in the bag. But we don’t live in that society, we live in the society where workers are exploited by capitalists and AI art impacts the livelihood of artists because those artists need to be able to sell their art to capitalists to live. So in my view the OOP is being very idealistic with their argument.
I’m probably not the best person to be arguing about this thing but I think there’s broader context that needs to be accounted for here. In an ideal world where AI art doesn’t impact peoples’ livelihood because their livelihood doesn’t depend on selling their art to capitalists my position would likely be pretty neutral. It’s another tool in the bag. But we don’t live in that society, we live in the society where workers are exploited by capitalists and AI art impacts the livelihood of artists because those artists need to be able to sell their art to capitalists to live. So in my view the OOP is being very idealistic with their argument.