AI/GenAI is unfortunately a loaded word.
Does Content-Aware Fill count as "AI"?
Does using trained data to fill content count as generative AI?
There is some nuance here that will be filled in by the courts and companies over time - just like other technologies that allowed creative mix-n-match.
I do agree that the current crop of "let's get all your YT videos and all your photographs to train our models and we will pay you peanuts by running ads" is objectively and morally wrong.
However, progress requires aligning the incentives and forcing some legal framework to compensate for training - not outright stop the generative AI train as that's simply not possible in this day and age.
There is some nuance here that will be filled in by the courts and companies over time - just like other technologies that allowed creative mix-n-match.
I do agree that the current crop of "let's get all your YT videos and all your photographs to train our models and we will pay you peanuts by running ads" is objectively and morally wrong.
However, progress requires aligning the incentives and forcing some legal framework to compensate for training - not outright stop the generative AI train as that's simply not possible in this day and age.