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"Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work (gizmodo.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/3613920

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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

"But I still want to get paid for it."

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I said this when it was posted elsewhere- how is he calculating those millions of dollars?

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

RIAA and MPAA anti-piracy strategy, aka, made up bullshit.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

It's easy. He chose an arbitrary number that was very big but just shy of 99% unrealistic, according to his own flawed judgement.

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Probably the same way companies tried to sue The Pirate Bay because the bay had lost them more money than existed in the world economy.