Since you don't want to hear "Stop using it because of unethical mistreatment of artists and vast waste of resources", I'm not sure what else there is to say. If that isn't enough then I don't know what to tell you.

My priorities are with artists. Yes, I'm "frustrated" about artists being abused in this manner. I've addressed priorities and solutions. The first step for anybody, of course, is to find a reason to care.

It'll go away if people stop using it. Capitalism.

Did I scold somebody?

The reality is most people don't understand the ethical issues with gen AI. So bringing it to their attention is the first step. But there are also many lawsuits currently in motion and that's probably going to be the ultimate solution.

Imagine publishers taking anything they like from online and publishing it for profit. It's essentially the same thing except they get to hide who they're stealing from.

Obviously, "copyright free" libraries are irrelevant. The vast majority of the internet is not copyright free.

Most artists aren't happy with every work they have online being used to bastardize new content for the financial benefit of billionaires and corporations who profit from the theft. Most artists need that income themselves.

In theory, yes. But the reality is that it needs a tremendous amount of data to do what it does. Most (all?) artists would never have enough of their own art to make it work.

But Gen AI 100% pulls from art scraped without permission or compensation. Always. That's literally the reason it can work.

But I didn't say anything about blackballing, only that I wish they wouldn't use it.

The work was stolen from artists regardless. The tremendous resource usage (water) happens regardless. Apart from serious ethical issues, the problem is that it perpetuates wholesale theft from artists. All for the benefit of billionaires and corporations.

In the NYT, here are the two reports directly beneath the news of two Guardsmen being shot: Trump agents deporting the spouses of citizens and Trump agents arresting folks without warrants. Don’t tell me Trump and his aides aren’t trying to incite violence to justify martial law.

Their optimism/self-loathing is cute.

Me too!

One can hope. But I sure wish more people would leave AI out of their self-expression.

I feel like it's time to bring back RSS feed readers (which still exist) for blogs and forums.

"But only if you've got nine lives..."

Excellent!