Uh... that was one of the major focuses of my second piece on AI art: https://www.flayrah.com/8872/ai-art-part-2-what-kind-world-do-we-want Admittedly, it's framed on the social effects but that can only be understood through philosophy and ethics which tell us what kind of world we should strive towards.
And there are more issues than ethics (and I assume here that you mean ethics on training models). That is one issue which is specific to many of the current implementations of generative AI. But it's not clear that, were the ethical issues solved, people would be happy with AI art and not still oppose it. For example, complaints about AI generated content putting artists out of business would still remain. To an extent that is a question of ethics but if there is no criticism over how the AI is trained, it doesn't seem different to saying people shouldn't charge less for a product than their competitors.
Even you have said that the ethical issues are not your major problem with it.
'And the truth is that AI generated "art" has a lot of thorny ethical issues. hese issues are perhaps debateable, but they exist. But, ultimately, for me, I can't help but see the context of this technology (even when used by those with the best intentions) helping to line the pockets of pretty shitty people who are knowingly passing off a shoddy product, and even more than the scraping, that's really what doesn't sit right with me.'
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
Uh... that was one of the major focuses of my second piece on AI art: https://www.flayrah.com/8872/ai-art-part-2-what-kind-world-do-we-want Admittedly, it's framed on the social effects but that can only be understood through philosophy and ethics which tell us what kind of world we should strive towards.
And there are more issues than ethics (and I assume here that you mean ethics on training models). That is one issue which is specific to many of the current implementations of generative AI. But it's not clear that, were the ethical issues solved, people would be happy with AI art and not still oppose it. For example, complaints about AI generated content putting artists out of business would still remain. To an extent that is a question of ethics but if there is no criticism over how the AI is trained, it doesn't seem different to saying people shouldn't charge less for a product than their competitors.
Even you have said that the ethical issues are not your major problem with it.
'And the truth is that AI generated "art" has a lot of thorny ethical issues. hese issues are perhaps debateable, but they exist. But, ultimately, for me, I can't help but see the context of this technology (even when used by those with the best intentions) helping to line the pockets of pretty shitty people who are knowingly passing off a shoddy product, and even more than the scraping, that's really what doesn't sit right with me.'
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~