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Which leads me to the question: would you find visual genAI more acceptable if it weren’t commercial? For sure. I couldn’t tell you where inspired, but new, work ends and theft begins, or how model training would be funded without commercial incentive. But I would be more comfortable knowing that companies have not ripped profit straight from every artist the model had been trained on. And I like this kind of discussion. What’s bothered me before have been the jabs at the mere presence of AI without deeper discussion as to what qualifies as theft. I haven’t found myself buying art even before such AI models. I wouldn’t buy or sell images that I know are AI generated. And I pay the electric bill as if I were doing any other novelty activity like gaming on my PC. I’m curious, what would you think of local models that can be acquired for free?