At the risk of sounding like Peterson (but reversed right to left), it’s always been about an in group that deserves to rule, and an out group that people punish. It’s that simple with them, why all the hypocrisy. It’s literally that simple. I’m a good guy, they’re bad, they disagree with me, that means they’re bad and should be punished. Zero sum game stuff

My big thing here is if there’s no contract, where is the onus for having correct models? Yah, the models are worth money, but is it the artist or softwares responsible for those correct models? I’d say most people who understand how software works would say software, unless they were corporate shills. Make better software, or pay the artists, the reaction shouldn’t be “artists are fooling me, they should pay”

Taking it to an extreme. Say somehow they had this same software back in the 90s, could the generative software sue because all the images were in 256 colors? From your perspective, yes, cause it was messing up their models that are built for many more colors

It’s not damaging a computer, it’s poisoning the models ai uses to create the images. The program will work just fine, and as expected given the model that it has, the difference is the model might not be accurate. It’s like saying you’re breaking a screen if you’re now looking at a low res version of an image