[worry]

To a certain degree, the ethics are irrelevant. Artists can sample, reference, iterate, pay homage, recycle, copy, and yes even steal. To varying degrees of quality for sure, but also irrelevant. Bad art is still art. Personally I don't even necessarily draw a hard line between art and commerce, where I'm sure others might.

But the bottom line is this: People -- and only people - make art. Machines aren't people. Therefore machines don't make art. Nothing they generate is art.

[JPK]

I think Azath was right on one thing. We're piling on and derailing this topic.

[worry]

My post is the title of a great book I read since my previous post.

[Abyss]

JPK, on 09 December 2025 - 03:43 PM, said:

I think Azath was right on one thing. We're piling on and derailing this topic.

Agreed - there IS a thread for this elsesub. Azath, in a stunning act of reasonableness, even linked it.

worry, on 09 December 2025 - 04:15 PM, said:

My post is the title of a great book I read since my previous post.

Name the author. I dare you.