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When an artist paints something awesome, do they give credit to the company that built the paintbrushes that they used? Or the company that made the canvas, or
by px43 4y ago
When an artist paints something awesome, do they give credit to the company that built the paintbrushes that they used? Or the company that made the canvas, or the paints? All of these are critically important and complex pieces of technology used by the painter, which has been honed over the course of thousands of years, but they're all just tools.
- jakelazaroff 4y agoI don’t think this is a great analogy. The issue here isn’t the tool, per se; it’s that the tool is reproducing work from other artists found in its training set. The antecedents here are things like pop art, Duchamp’s readymades, sampling in hip hop, collaging.