I probably misinterpreted your original post, but it was written exactly like how many anti-AI lefties make their arguments. For example again here you said
because it's searching online sources for a correct answer
Even if you don't literally mean "the AI program is using Google when you enter a prompt", anti-AI people on the social medias do literally think that's how it works.
But I don't see how AI is "stealing" anything. Not anymore than any human artist would be "stealing" by getting inspiration from other people's art, which is what every single artist does.
I do agree with you that people overhype it a lot. I've seen way too many people using ChatGPT as a source as if it's a font of knowledge, and not just an advanced Markov chain.
An AI doesn't think, this is something that people hugely misinterpret about machine learning algorithms and how they work. It is not sentient AI and I partly blame the marketers and people trying to explain how AI works for that because as it turns out you have to be extremely specific in order for people to get it correctly.
This is precisely why the AI is stealing, to try and explain the human equivalent of what the AI is doing. A human being takes reference images and takes inspiration as you rightly point out from stuff they see around them or other artists to create something original. However that is not what the current machine learning we know does, it does the human equivalent of tracing over an already existing image, editing it and then claiming it's an original piece.
Even if you can make the legal argument that's not 'theft' it's almost certainly plagiarism and that's what many artists and programmers have noticed when tinkering with this stuff in detail. Mind you I shouldn't be stopping this I should be accelerating it because then I'll be the only vaguely competent competition around because everybody else will be endlessly generating AI trash for their work.
I probably misinterpreted your original post, but it was written exactly like how many anti-AI lefties make their arguments. For example again here you said
Even if you don't literally mean "the AI program is using Google when you enter a prompt", anti-AI people on the social medias do literally think that's how it works.
But I don't see how AI is "stealing" anything. Not anymore than any human artist would be "stealing" by getting inspiration from other people's art, which is what every single artist does.
I do agree with you that people overhype it a lot. I've seen way too many people using ChatGPT as a source as if it's a font of knowledge, and not just an advanced Markov chain.
An AI doesn't think, this is something that people hugely misinterpret about machine learning algorithms and how they work. It is not sentient AI and I partly blame the marketers and people trying to explain how AI works for that because as it turns out you have to be extremely specific in order for people to get it correctly.
This is precisely why the AI is stealing, to try and explain the human equivalent of what the AI is doing. A human being takes reference images and takes inspiration as you rightly point out from stuff they see around them or other artists to create something original. However that is not what the current machine learning we know does, it does the human equivalent of tracing over an already existing image, editing it and then claiming it's an original piece.
Even if you can make the legal argument that's not 'theft' it's almost certainly plagiarism and that's what many artists and programmers have noticed when tinkering with this stuff in detail. Mind you I shouldn't be stopping this I should be accelerating it because then I'll be the only vaguely competent competition around because everybody else will be endlessly generating AI trash for their work.