> I think it is an important and insightful distinction, if you are curious to engage. Can you clarify which thing is important/insightful? I want to make sure

> I think it is an important and insightful distinction, if you are curious to engage. Can you clarify which thing is important/insightful? I want to make sure I’m understanding your comment. I should also clarify that I do think AI is a tool. And I do think that the questions raised about other tools are interesting to ask relative to AI. My main issue is with the “just a” framing, which usually comes with a strong implication that this tool status means AI should be treated no differently than a paintbrush. > Another interesting question is what commercial use of midjourney looks like if you cant trust it to produce content unencumbered by copyright? This is one of the key things that establishes a new category of concerns that is not present in other common tools. e.g. if I use a paintbrush to make counterfeit artwork, it is clear that the act of creating the specific output was deliberate (it would be hard to argue that I didn’t know what I was doing over 40 hours of detailed painting). I can’t be sure what will or won’t come of a generative image model.