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• @IratePirate@feddit.org 2026-06-21 21:52

  Let’s not just exchange blunt claims, but reason a little. Copyright critics have long made the somewhat compelling argument that copying isn’t stealing because the original digital item does not become scarcer in the process. So how can AI taking artists’ work be considered theft if it, too, just uses copies of the original work and maybe transforms them into a new work (which would, under U.S. law, fall under the “fair use”)? We might argue that, well, fair use does not apply because most AI companies try to monetise the models derived from other people’s work. Which leads me to the question: would you find visual genAI more acceptable if it weren’t commercial?

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