>>148978111that article highlights the term "AI Slop"
you know that whole thing was done by a sour artist unwilling to learn the new tool and upset their lifetime of training was turned into everybody
pressing buttons as a joke (or so they think)
the bottom line is... the companies don't care about the ART.
they want the DATA
with every prompt, we are shoveling data at them. yummy, wonderful, data.
over and over, gazillions of data points
I don't know how they profit from the data, but THEY sure do.
if anything Disney wants "in" on the data farm. if the thing implodes (I doubt it will) we would eventually wind up with Disney++ AI+ where you could do all our princesses again.
artist have always had to deal with people copying their work. remember tracing paper from kindergarten? has anybody put a tape recorder next to the radio? it's simply too vast to monitor and enforce that type of casual copying