Post #3667979
2026-07-08 08:23 UTC
@bencc@morehammer.uk So it is the imbibing of massive quantities of source material, without consent, that is the problem. OK. That does make sense.
But let's imagine I asked an artist friend to make me a silly meme for my toot. I'd say "oh I want it to look like count binface in front of clacton pier" and she'd go straight to google images, view images of binface, and Clacton, without the originator's consent, then make something by hand.
I'm wondering what makes that different and more acceptable? Scale?
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@bencc@morehammer.uk 2026-07-08 08:50
@bloor@bloor.tw that is only part of it. To answer your specific question, I personally think that's OK because it's an artist creating something new even if it is directly inspired by existing media. It's creative, thoughtful and requires time and skills that are not easy to learn. I imagine Disney might disagree though. A GenAI image doesn't have any of that, it's just creating a statistically plausible average for your prompt based on the material it's been trained on, and doing so causes harm.