I don't dislike generative AI for art and other creative works because I have an arbitrary divide on what level of automation/pre-processing in art is acceptable (it used to be the norm for artists to mix their own paints, now it's not).
I hate it because it's a PLAGIARISM MACHINE.
I hate it because it is currently made predominantly out of theft of people's work and violation of their intellectual rights.
I have zero objections to an individual artist or collective voluntarily feeding their work into a specific program and playing around with that data set. I don't object to the tool. I object to theft.
Look. I bake for fun. I have baked from scratch, from box mixes, and modifying box mixes. I do not care if people decide to scrap all of that and just buy some tasty factory made cookies.
I object to them walking into my kitchen, swiping my cupcakes off the table, scraping off the frosting, walking into my neighbor's kitchen to steal a bowl of frosting my neighbor just mixed, slathering it on the stolen cupcakes, and then claiming there's nothing wrong with what they did.
