[Brushfire]

Imagine you are a startup business owner and you have developed a unique product or service.

And then someone comes along and competes with you?

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No one is bothered by competition in markets.

Why do we have more or less empathy of this type for some professions?

[onetrickwolf]

To quote another comment but "Instead of replacing crappy jobs and freeing up peoples time to enjoy their life, we’re actually automating enjoyable pursuits."

I think this isn't just a simple discussion on competition and copyright, I think it's a much larger question on humanity. It just seems like potentially a bleak future if enjoyable and creative pursuits are buried and even surpassed by automation.

[mtrower]

If the pursuit is enjoyable, it should continue to be enjoyable as a hobby, no?

Meanwhile, where is my levy of custom artists willing to do free commission work for me? It’s enjoyable, right?

I see a lot of discussion about money and copyright, and little to no discussion about the individual whose life is enriched by access to these tools and technologies.

As for your bleak future… will that even come to pass? I don’t know. Maybe it depends on your notion of “surpass”, and what that looks like.

[BeFlatXIII]

Some people enjoy looking at images more than creating them.

[bigbacaloa]

In most markets everyone is bothered by competition and tries to eliminate it.

[MomoXenosaga]

The appeal of art is the artist. Unless computers gain sentience they cannot replace the humanity and ego of artists.

Ever wondered why artists have to show up at gallery parties to sell their stuff?

[BeFlatXIII]

> The appeal of art is the artist.

To some. To others, the artistic object is all that all that matters.

[mtrower]

No, the appeal of the artist is the artist. The art does offer a means to connect with the artist. It does not follow that the art may not offer its own appeal besides.

[Taywee]

If they competed with me by throwing my product through a decompiler, fed it into an AI model, and selling the generated output, I'd be pretty upset about it.

Which is pretty close to the actual issue here, that artists did not give their permission to use their own work to generate their competition.

[mtrower]

Wouldn’t that say more about the client than the competitor?