Hilary White: "Hey, something just struck me as I was reading about Dante’s idea about the sinfulness of usury and medieval ideas about work as cooperation with and participation in the creative work of God in the universe. What if the reason we art-people object so strongly to the people using the AI to generate images (instead of paying artists) isn’t about the AI scraping images or stealing their work without…"

06-28-2024

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Hey, something just struck me as I was reading about Dante’s idea about the sinfulness of usury and medieval ideas about work as cooperation with and participation in the creative work of God in the universe. What if the reason we art-people object so strongly to the people using the AI to generate images (instead of paying artists) isn’t about the AI scraping images or stealing their work without…
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