I began this post writing that it was plagiarism, but then I realized that not every "AI retracing" is that. Then I considered whether it was his malice that made it wrong, but satire, parody and criticism can often be just as searing.
Then it dawned on me. It is the fact that the "retrace" is posted without any mention to the original work. That's what makes it wrong. It's not plagiarism, but erasure. A denial of authorship. It is a wrong thing to do regardless of malice, intellectual property or copyright.
The guy says he did it to piss off the original artist. I believe this is a worse thing to do than a mere insult. He would be singing a different tune if his writings were rephrased by AI and reposted by someone else.
This is wrong.
I began this post writing that it was plagiarism, but then I realized that not every "AI retracing" is that. Then I considered whether it was his malice that made it wrong, but satire, parody and criticism can often be just as searing.
Then it dawned on me. It is the fact that the "retrace" is posted without any mention to the original work. That's what makes it wrong. It's not plagiarism, but erasure. A denial of authorship. It is a wrong thing to do regardless of malice, intellectual property or copyright.
The guy says he did it to piss off the original artist. I believe this is a worse thing to do than a mere insult. He would be singing a different tune if his writings were rephrased by AI and reposted by someone else.