It’s interesting you know, back when music piracy was first a thing online, there was a popular idea, even backed by some research I think, that music piracy di

It’s interesting you know, back when music piracy was first a thing online, there was a popular idea, even backed by some research I think, that music piracy didn’t impact sales because people wouldn’t have had the money to buy that music otherwise. The theory was that piracy might actually increase sales due to more exposure of the music to consumers. AI generated art, AI generated anything really, is very close to piracy, but nobody is making that argument anymore. I think this is because the positions are reversed - the general public were motivated to find and spread vacuous reasons that piracy was neutral to good as it benefited them. When the general public might be harmed, instead of corporate rights-holders, then it becomes an unambiguous moral wrong. So it’s never really been about right and wrong, it’s just about who benefits. Like everything I guess.