AI's aren't sentient. They can't "steal."
Programmers and institutions select the data with which to train the model. They take art and writing from artists and authors without credit or payment. The software then remixes and mimics what it is given.
Displacing agency by attributing intent to the AI is exactly how people and institutions erase human action in the creation of technology. It also leads to further perceptions of technology as acultural, unbiased, and, in essence, magical.
@Manigarm I find it hard to really see how AI software should credit the original artist.
As long as
1) They software company don't try to capitalize of those names, like "in the style of X".
Or
2) Actually re-create existing work.
If the AI creates truly new and unique work, how is that any different than us humans getting inspired by existing art.
I don't have to credit Hirst no matter how much I try to copy him.
It might not be considered art, but I'm perfectly free to do that.
@floede @Manigarm You can, right this minute, ask an AI for art "in the style of X," and it will produce exactly that.
The extent to which they re-create X's existing work depends on (1) exactly what mathematical manipulation the algorithm does, and (2) how large the X corpus in the training dataset is.
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