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Artist Jingna Zhang built Cara, a platform explicitly intended to protect artists from having their art stolen by AI...and yet these people just won't leave them well enough alone.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If i put a garden gnome outside i'd expect people to be decent and not steal it and send it to space.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

And if they do send it to space I'd at least like to get a postcard. From space.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I though we established that making copies is not stealing...

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

maybe you should direct that to OP, they're the one mentioned stealing.

Also yes and no, depend on the circumstance. If someone download a video to watch it personally, then that wouldn't be stealing. If they then reupload to direct traffic to themselves and denying the original creator revenue, then that's stealing, but not the art, it's the revenue.

It's really about expecting people to be decent, punching up instead of punching down. If someone really wanted to be left alone in this AI infested era and doesn't want their art to be scraped and trained, then leave them be. What worst, those are independent artist that usually already struggling, not millionaires.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

We didn’t. The definition of stealing means taking something without permission. Has nothing to do with physical items.

[–] Tja@programming.dev -3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

All the people using adblockers and pirating are going to be angry.

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Why? I wouldn’t call viewing a publicly accessible site stealing. It’s published to the public, therefore the permission to view it is given.

But even if you do want to classify it as stealing, so what?

Big tech is stealing our data constantly. I have no issues stealing things of my own. 🏴‍☠️

[–] Tja@programming.dev -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Explain your point.

I already addressed the fact that you have permission to view public sites.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 4 minutes ago

You have permission under the condition you watch the ads.