Post #1494419
2026-01-21 14:02 UTC
@miki @lucydev
It democratizes it by making it available for the people who can't / don't want to / don't have the time for learning it.
No, I'm sorry, but it doesn't.
What it "democratises" is being an art director who commissions a machine to generate things derived from the (uncredited, un-compensated) work of others (whose lack of consent was gleefully violated).
Gutenberg democratised learning, with his movable-type press.
Encylopaedias took that a step further, and Wikipedia amped it up again.
Blogs and Youtube democratised the sharing of knowledge and skills.
All these things have enabled people to learn how to do a thing.
But if you typed in a description and got a picture in return, you did not create that picture. You commissioned it.
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@miki@dragonscave.space 2026-01-21 15:37
@KatS @lucydev It democratizes in the public transit way (by making transport available to non-drivers), not in the car way (by making it easy). And btw: all art is uncredited and a lot of it is unconsensual. Outside of academia, it's extremely rare to credit every single influence that an artist used, down to Da Vinci or the Gregorian chants, as long as snippets significant snippets aren't extracted directly from that work, something that AI only does when prompted.