Ah, lovely of you not to read what I wrote.

People want to rip off artists and treat them like shit. AI tools are just a current tool for doing so.

models were trained without consultation by the people involved, and how it’s now being used to threaten the livelihoods of the same people.
That’s totally correct in my book. Openai, anthropic and the whole lot of them can burn as far as I’m concerned.

A tool that’s doing harm can and should be regulated, and the harm and potential for harm mitigated

Totally sidestepping things.

Remember when I wrote that giving them money was wrong, that all those companies were bad, that we need regulation on it?

You’re still not getting that AI isn’t openai or anthropic or any of that.

If you buy harry Potter, you’re giving money to the baddies.
What I said would be more akin to “you can care about trans people and enjoy wizards”. Do you see the difference?

Do you think that I’m particularly in favor of the massive AI push going on now? What have I said to make you think that?
I think I’ve been pretty clear that my position is “tools don’t define art”.
You’ve been saying “something can’t be art if it involves something I don’t like” and arguing in defense of video games artists the working class.

I think you dislike a tool because someone told you it’s bad, and you don’t know how to distinguish between a product, a company, and a category of tool. I think you’re now invested in the position so you can’t pivot and say you might not understand things as much as you thought. I think that’s why you’re arguing against what you think someone who disagrees with you would say instead of actually understanding.