Check this new:

- Apple’s iPhone camera
- Adobe Photoshop 
- Xerox PARC’s copy + paste

And every other tool ever that seemingly threatened a small set of creators while unlocking entire generations of new ones.

Imagine gatekeeping creativity.

father, husband, css golfer, ux engineer, silently defining variables as /sdv sdv.wtf

Difference is the latest tech wouldn’t be possible without intellectual property that was used without permission or compensation of the IP owners. It’s an oversimplification to dismiss artists criticizing it as luddites. 😕

Yeah I’m totally a hypocrite on it. Love AI tools but I figure it’s a tragedy of the commons situation that only gov & the base model creators can solve.

I think there’s misplaced frustration between companies recklessly making these tools and the people using them.

It’s understandably frustrating to have work stolen and remixed without any attribution. But I want to believe we’d have something comparable using public domain and open source media as seed material without infringing copyright.

The use of protected works just accelerated the process, which was likely bound to happen anyway in some pocket of the web. We’re just having the complicated conversations now of what it means to own a style, etc.

All this to say I don’t think it’s fair to police people for wanting to play with shiny new toys that are all the rage.