It's not "art" in the strictest sense of a human expressing some component of the human experience through painting, sculpture, music performance, etc. But the

It's not "art" in the strictest sense of a human expressing some component of the human experience through painting, sculpture, music performance, etc. But the AI can seemingly still produce a beautiful painting that evokes many of the same emotions in the audience's mind. So I don't know. I do agree with the framing of the ethics question. I don't have anything much original but this comment said it well, https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/statement-on-stable-diffusion/comment/8693814 https://bakztfuture.substack.com/p/statement-on-stable-diffu..., the AI work is highly dependent on a huge base of preexisting work, and it is at the very least important to keep this in mind.