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We avoid because we do not want to be bodies like that. We do not want our bodies to participate in mass extinction. We do not want our bodies to be wrapped in garments made by other bodies that are degraded, abused, and worked to exhaustion. We do not want to ingest foods marred by memories of human and nonhuman suffering. We do not want the lands we live on to be stolen and haunted. We do not want the children we love to live in a world that is less alive, less wonderous, more frightening.
In the technological era, it is difficult to ignore the fact that fields exist in which some or all of the agents are in fact merely depersonalised, nonindividualistic units of work-force.
Capitalism and Culture: Bourdieu's Field Theory
Dan O'Hara
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
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