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>- "ML models can't perform creative work" - then came GANs, large language models, DALL-E, and more. I don't think copying other people's style of artwork is

by soperj 4y ago

>- "ML models can't perform creative work" - then came GANs, large language models, DALL-E, and more. I don't think copying other people's style of artwork is considered creative work, otherwise art forgers would be able to actually make a living doing art, since some of them are really phenomenal.

freeflight 4y ago
Arguments like this always make me think of Everything is a Remix [0] or how allegedly the most sincerest form of flattery is imitation. [0] https://youtu.be/nJPERZDfyWc https://youtu.be/nJPERZDfyWc
jimbokun 4y ago
Good artists borrow, great artists steal.
- soperj 4y ago
  That's a quote coming from someone who stole repeatedly, so of course they said that. Alfred Tennyson had this to say: "That great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil."