re: Netflix Japan uses AI in anime (artists not happy)

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It's theft. Pure and simple.

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The origin work still exists in the space it was placed. The work wasn't duplicated and sold. It's not pure or simple as a one to one comparison.

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It's not just another "next step" in technology. It relies on the appropriation of the work of others.

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All artwork is derivative. What artists are arguing is for the end of cultural development. A stagnant stalemate where somehow their appropriated thing is valuable but past things are not and future things are impossible to create.

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it causes your income to decrease and mine to increase

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So is the industrial cycle, my friend. You've taken a personal luxury time waste and commoditized it, and now you're upset that engineers have industrialized it through the use of machinery? Your potter's wheel still has value, just fewer willing to pay your production cost.