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  • I’ve gotten arguments that it’s theft, because technically the AI is utilizing other artist’s work as resources for the images it produces. I’ve pointed out that that’s more like copying another artist’s style than theft, which real artists do all the time, but it’s apparently different when a computer algorithm does it?

    Look, I understand people’s fears that AI image generation is going to put regular artists out of work, I just don’t agree with them. Did photography put painters out of work? Did the printing press stop the use of writing utensils? Did cinema cause theatre to go extinct?

    No. People need to calm down and stop freaking out about technology moving forward. You’re not going to stop it; so you might as well learn to live with it. If history is a reliable teacher, it really won’t be that bad.










  • Tedesche@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldJust was.
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    1 year ago

    A black person living in South Africa (for example) enjoys that same privilege.

    That statement alone demonstrates how little you understand the concept. Privilege is a set of advantages one has in society based on their background and where that background places them in society relative to societal norms. Plenty Black people in the U.S. are under-privileged, but a Black person born into a middle-class family that goes to decent schools is not one of those people. Likewise, plenty of White people in the U.S. have privilege, but a lower class White person living in an area that doesn’t afford them the same degree of access to standard education, income, and saddles them with the label of “white trash” doesn’t. In South Africa, Black people might be in the majority, but they are not running the country.

    Privilege is about advantages, not skin color. Learn the difference.