this is the endgame for people still trying to live under the tyranny of copyright law. your entire focus is on how wrong it is for ai because it used other peoples art and was derivative of it, but literally all information is derivative of other information because information is infinitely replicable. when i take a photo of the mona lisa with my phone, i am not stealing it. its still in the lourve for anyone to see. the same goes for if i modify it. the original still exists. because information is infinitely replicable and infinitely malleable, it should never be considered immoral to create new works that are derivate of older ones, because it is literally impossible to create new information from scratch.
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