If there was a just and benevolent God, people like Musk and Trump would have been working some thankless minimum-wage jobs their whole lives rather than being among the most powerful people on the planet.
As for this "A.I. art" bullshit, it's just plagiarism on a mass scale. It's not an homage. It's not "inspired" by something else. It's tracing with extra steps. The computer just takes a bunch of assets without permission, smashes them all together, and regurgitates an amalgamation of all those stolen assets based on the parameters somebody types into a prompt. It's a soulless machine lacking all sentience, just following a program. It has no capacity to think abstractly, much less know what things like art or creativity even are in the first place. Whatever these "A.I.s" spit out shouldn't be subject to any legal protection. Even if we're generous enough to call "A.I. art" derivative works rather than just straight-up theft, those aren't subject to copyright either, regardless of whether the source material itself is still under copyright or is in the public domain.
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