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in earnest, i’m pro–ai art for the same reason i’m pro–sample/remix/mashup—namely, art maximalism. it’s all good, throw it all in the soup. the gripes aren’t unique to ai, nor to art, and they aren’t going to be addressed by relitigating “is it art? is it bad?” over and over.
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i think it's cool that people will steal art, badly paint over it, and put it in their portfolio but it's cool when they do it because the original artist used midjourney. class. with rhetorical enemies like this who needs friends to help prove your points?
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I’m a big fan of remixing, appropriating, etc, but I’m not sure that equating ai art to mashups and remixes is quite right. There is a tool in the middle that kind of… erases the connection to the source material, and the scale/power dynamics are different.
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I feel like a lot of tools in the music space already erase the connection to the source material, and lots of musicians have been willfully hiding the source material for a long time.
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