DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp

Artists are no different than all the people who tried to destroy the cotton gin or the automated loom. We're all going to have to live in a world where these technologies exist, and find a way to live a fulfilling life regardless. Just as chess players today enjoy the game even though computers have surpassed our chess abilities.

It seems odd to complain that computers are using human's artwork to inspire their own creations. Every human artist has done the exact same thing in their lifetime; it's unavoidable.

These systems aggregate and interpolate human work. Interpolation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpolation

It's like a very complicated form of linear interpolation:

  a*x + (1-a)*y

These systems do not "think". Today I spent all day mulling an idea, experimenting with variations, feeling frustrated or excited, imagining it, simulating it, making mistakes, following paths of reasoning, deducing facts, revisiting dead-ends with new insight, daydreaming, talking to my wife about it, etc. That's human thought.

These models do not "think" like a human, they do not dream or imagine or feel. They run a feed-forward system of linear equations (matrix multiplications).

They INTERPOLATE HUMAN WORK.

They don't exist without training data (huge amounts of intellectual property) aggregated and interpolated in a monstrous perversion of "fair use":

https://bugfix-66.com/7a82559a13b39c7fa404320c14f47ce0c304fa...

Starve the machine. Without your work, it's got nothing.

Humans also interpolate human work. True originality is an illusion and all creative works are based on, inspired by, or contributed to by something else. Are you implying that human thought is required to create human-level art? Because if anything, I think AI-generated art is in the process of disproving this exact hypothesis. It is unnerving to realize that something we felt up til now was fundamentally exclusive to the human experience isn't actually exclusive, but it's becoming more and more apparent.