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> OpenAI isn't trying to produce art. They are trying to replace human creation with artificial creation, but an artificial creation whose entire input was the human creation.

And they’re trying to build a business off it as well. There are a whole lot of things we generally excuse when they’re noncommercial (morally, even if not strictly legally), but OpenAI is a business, not a hobby. Similarly, we cast a gentler eye towards someone working towards self-improvement or personal discovery - artists are known to duplicate the work of other artists to hone their techniques, and Kawano was copying Mondrian’s style to understand the use of new technology for making art. OpenAI is doing none of that - the point of their system is to skip all the hard work of learning and self improvement.



I think you could argue that openAI isn’t in the business of making art — it’s their users that make AI art that are in the business of making art.

There are plenty of reasons for a model to ingest the art that are not directly related to creating new derivatives of that art. If you want the model to be able to recognize famous paintings or discuss styles/genres, it needs to get those examples.


Serious question: what compelled you to make this argument, overlooking (as sibling points out) the obvious fact that they generate art using the art they trained on?


But it sure doesn't need to be able to generate them for anything other than generating them.




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