u/Door-Slamming-Master

As a pro, I HATE when antis use this as an argument. "Art is more about the pain and suffering in it, not the result. That's why AI is bad because it's quick and painless." If you really think that, screw you. I don't care if it took a few hours, or a day, or five years. If I like it then I like it. And if not, I don't. I don't look at art or animation or anything like that and think about the "soul" or "painful process" first. I like how it looks, and that's why I'm watching it or looking at it. So what if it's AI? I don't care as long as it's decent. And if anyone at all genuinely thinks that the longer something took, the better it is, then they're actually stupid.

Also, before you say "oh you just type stuff into ChatGPT, you don't know suffering and the joy of art!1!!!" I actually DO make real art sometimes. And I don't do it for the process. I mean I do enjoy it, but I don't care about the process that much. Why do I do it? Because the end product looks cool. Not because I want people to praise me for my hard work.

Stop saying art is about the process.

I've seen a lot of people (antis) saying AI steals from people's art.

But from what I've seen, AI doesn't steal. It learns from stuff, like how people do. Except it's faster. If AI is learning what a tree looks like, it finds a billion images of trees and figures out what a tree is. That's also what it does with art. I don't see how AI steals. And with "consent", it doesn't make much sense. People learn from your art, too. They do it way slower, though. And they basically "don't have consent" either. Other than the speed, how is it different from AI? "AI stealing" makes no sense.

So can someone actually explain how AI "steals your art"?

Edit: I think I should've used "training" instead of learning