I already muted the guy who prompted this reply over there, but cross posting this because realizing maybe I need to be more direct https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1615349937310400515

Freelance artists posting work online as a part of making a living aren't getting billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft to produce work. OpenAI is. None of those billions of dollars are going back to artists, who *will likely have less work bc of these tools.*

I kind of left behind musing on influence and creativity and attribution after my freshman year of art school, but I realize that most of the people raising these questions are probably encountering them for the first time and think they are Very Interesting. Fine. Just feel like it's weird to talk about AI art stuff independent of like, power and money as though art exists somewhere magically unsullied by both.