I'm neither an artist or a software dev, but I do work in tech - here's my perspective: A piece of art created by an artist will likely be posted publicly, whe

I'm neither an artist or a software dev, but I do work in tech - here's my perspective: A piece of art created by an artist will likely be posted publicly, where it can be used as part of a training set for an AI art program. This has come up in news articles, I read on recently where an artist's work was used without her consent, and the AI proceeded to produce almost identical images. A piece of code written by a software developer will likely only be posted publicly if it is open source, so the probability of an AI code program being trained on closed-source code is slim to none. Obviously there are issues surrounding attribution, and I've seen evidence of copilot spitting out some open source code verbatim, bar the license or any attribution. I think the more open, sharing nature of coders, especially those in the open source space, is what has led to AI code being more accepted than AI art, where artists are far more concerned about protecting their intellectual property.