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As we understand things, punitive damages could be large. As mentioned before, sources have recently reported that Midjourney may have deliberately created an immense list of artists on which to train, perhaps without licensing or compensation. Given how close the current software seems to come to source materials, it’s not hard to envision a class action lawsuit.
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem
Gary Marcus
Alas! The leisure which the pagan poet announced has not come. The blind, perverse and murderous passion for work transforms the liberating machine into an instrument for the enslavement of free men. Its productivity impoverishes them.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
Counterfeit is not possible in the ceremonial, unless in the form of black magic and sacrilege, which is precisely what makes the mixing of signs punishable as a serious offence against the very order of things.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
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