Disclaimer: yes, it is good to have evidence for this.

That said, it’s very ‘scientists discover the world existed that way for a reason before we started fucking it up.’

I wonder if it’s possible to quantify how much of the reforestation in the US over the past 75ish years is monoculture tree planting rather than a diverse selection? I know I definitely grew up near a fair amount of “forests” (rows and rows of pine) that were deserts biologically.

Now we have people arguing that making a drawing in someone else’s “style” is copyright infringement.

No, people are saying that if you mass scrape art from the internet that you don’t hold the copyright to in order to create an image generator that you then turn around and try to sell access to, you’re violating the copyright of those artists (on top of being an incredibly unethical douchebag).

If the artwork they’re using to train the algorithm wasn’t valuable then they wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail in court to be allowed to do whatever they want with it. They’d just shrug, say okay, and use whatever copyright free stuff they had at hand. If they didn’t need it then they wouldn’t do it, and if they need it then the people whose labor its very existence depends on should get a slice of the pie.

Do I not have hands in this scenario? If I can’t draw why is my livelihood dependent on me making filler art?

What means of production do you think artists hold?? It’s absolutely deranged to put artists (who 99 times out of 100 are not wealthy) and CEOs in the same class.

But I will literally die if I don’t get free plagiarized art :(

Possibly a mock strawberry?

Super informative post, thanks for sharing!