Did that person draw that specific frame all by themselves? If no then it’s still using others’ copyrighted work + own input.
It’s absolutely incredible that people are such bootlickers for billionaire projects that they’ll see this tremendous slam dunk and then go to the comments trying to defend the person who just got dunked. Like, seriously, you really think that’s going to convince people?!
Funny how Luddite paint pigs were perfectly fine when Microsoft’s dalle was the only player in the game and didn’t start screeching about ai until after open source image generation software got released. And yet you conservatives still call people bootlickers.
They also were inspired by other creations. Like Superman’s strength and flight ability.
It shouldn’t be. That’d stealing work from others and I doubt most are paying the original artist
The only true artist is Ooonga Baloonga, who invented art when he drew something roughly resembling an animal on a random cave wall 6 bajillion years ago. Everything since then is derivative bullshit, lifeless imitations of his unique vision.
That’s the argument they’re making against people who think LLMs are inherently theft.