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[highplainsdem]

13. If you're referring to me as "THE GUY"...I'm a woman, as I've mentioned here on DU a lot of times, including in the

music forum I host.

I've posted a lot here over the last few years about the harm generative AI does, starting with the worldwide theft from all the people whose work was stolen to train the AI. I haven't ignored the news about artists fighting against the theft of their work by AI companies wanting to profit from it. I've known too many writers, artists, musicians, producers, photographers, actors and other creatives to think that what's being done to them by greedy AI bros and unthinking/uncaring users of AI is okay. But I'd care about that theft of intellectual property even if I didn't know those creatives, because it's one of the greatest thefts the world has ever seen. Maybe the greatest, when you consider the value of that intellectual property.

I know creatives who've considered suicide because of the theft of their work and the harm done to their livelihoods by both the AI companies and by people using AI who don't give a damn about the damage done to truly creative people as long as they can use AI to pretend they did something.

This thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220715710

has an accurate description of generative AI.