[elsonrodriguez]

My wife draws comics and exhibits at comic con, and her website is basically being ddossed by AI scrapers to the point of NEEDING cloudflare to keep the site online.

Then people get to use the models that stole her work and crashed her site to sell derivative works right next to her booth?

[joshcsimmons]

That sucks but it’s pretty much always been like this as technology advances. You can either fight the tide or go with it like Warhol did. He pivoted to doing more photographs later in his career because it was easier to make more art.

Art != business. They are separate things and only heartbreak will ensue when you operate on the assumption that artistic values is business value.

[elsonrodriguez]

My point isn’t about the advancement of technology, it is about theft and destruction disguised as technology.

If what happened to my wife happened to Warhol the equivalent would be someone tearing his paintings off the gallery wall and selling xeroxed versions with sharpie written over them.

However your ultimate points are that art can’t be business, which in turn means artists shouldn’t necessarily be compensated, which defies reality and morality.