Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge

If the AI movement will manage to undermine Imaginary Property, it would redeem it's externalities threefold.

What are your feelings about how the small fish is stripped of their arts, and their years of work becomes just a prompt? Mainly comic artists and small musicians who are doing things they like and putting out for people, but not for much money?

"But think about the children". The copyright system is doing too much damage to culture and society. Yes, it does provides a pond for some small fish, but the overall damage outweighs this. Like the fact that first estate provided sustainable for arts and crafts to flourish doesn't make the ancient régime any less screwed up.

I think I have worded my question wrong. I asked about not about how AI affects the financials of these smaller artists, but their wellbeing in general.

There are many small artists who do this not for money, but for fun and have their renowned styles. Even their styles are ripped off by these generative AI companies and turned into a slot machine to earn money for themselves. These artists didn't consent to that, and this affects their (mental) well-beings.

With that context in mind, what do you think about these people who are not in this for money is ripped out of their years of achievement and their hard work exploited for money by generative AI companies?

It's not about IP (with whatever expansion you prefer) or laws, but ethics in general.

Substitute comics for any medium. Code, music, painting, illustration, literature, short movies, etc.