> I don't think an analogy that compares the manufacture of machinery with the creation of artwork is a good one. Why not? The analogy just shows that there ar

> I don't think an analogy that compares the manufacture of machinery with the creation of artwork is a good one. Why not? The analogy just shows that there are many prior examples of skills that only comparatively few humans could do, and/or humans couldn't do consistenly/cheap/quickly/at-scale, until suddely the tasks were automated. My point from this is, if this happened in the past, regularly, why would it suddenly be a problem now? > None of these tools require the original artwork of other artists to function They do if someone deliberately wants to infringe copyright and/or forge someone elses work, because without an example, how would they do that? > an AI that was explicitly trained for a particular purpose. That purpose being "translate an input prompt into a consistent image". Yes, people can use them do bad things, same as they can use cars as getaway vehicles. Neither is the fault of the tool, but the fault of people using them for nefarious purposes. > We might blame the car manufacturer though if the car was autonomous and had been trained on a dataset of all drivers and driving styles, and had "learned" to be a getaway car, replete with situational awareness of a typical robbery scene, knowledge of how to avoid cops, etc. Why would we wait with the blame until the car was autonomous? Why don't we start with cars that have, eg. strong engines? I'd guess a strong engine is a desireable property for a getaway vehicle. So, why don't we blame string engines? For the same reason why it doesn't make sense to blame generative AI for people using it for copyright infringement: Strong engines have a ton of legitimate, useful properties. The fact that some people use them for bad things, doesn't outweigh the usefulness to the many more people using them for good things. The hypothetical car that was trained on tons of extreme driving techniques might also use that training to avoid a crash in an emergency situation, or to detect dangerous behaviour of other vehicles sooner. Again, we don't blame the tools, we blame the people using them for bad things.