Wouldn't it make more sense to strike OpenAI, or Midjourney, or whatever else then?

Aside from that, I don't think this "protest" will result in anything more than maybe some increased security (and maybe more arrests if he inspires others to do similar).

In art one often follows impulses. Art is about expression after all.

Plus, if these were really AI creations new copies can be printed. Unless the human “co-creator” did something like paint on the work after printing, not much has been damaged.

It's just garbage in garbage out. AIs reliably induce rage and negativity in humans. Humans become angry and violent if shown AI generated data. It's just a fact at this point.

And it's not even like software engineers are special in that regard. Everyone here is quick to spot and express their opinions on use of AI in articles and everyone seem to like to have their words on rampant vibecoded pull requests.

Freedom of thought and speech means you're free to expect people to thank you for spitting on them, and also that nobody else than you would be responsible for that insanity of yours.

Don't take him to the MoMA he'll need his stomach pumped.

They're right and this also reminds me of the banana that was sold and eaten at Art Basel.

> It shouldn't be acceptable for this "art," if you will,

He didn't even will. Why did he encourage others to? Misguided etiquette.

Maybe he was hungry.

Unfortunately AI "art" has about the same amount of nutritional value as artistic value.

I'd recommend him to go for oil paintings.

  CW: Have you ever been in an eating contest?

  GG: Yeah, a long long time ago. I did a mashed potato eating contest at a renaissance fair back in Georgia.

As much as I wanted to roll my eyes, this did give me a chuckle.

On mobile the site is unreadable. The red banner at the bottom goes from taking up half the screen to a quater when using the caret to minimize. I was then immediately served a full page ad about Ron Howard when I tried to scroll down..

Something something, "it's arrested development"

Holy rationalization Batman

He just chewed them and spat them out

You don’t wanna leave it up to the victim all the time because that opens up for pressuring victims into dropping the charges and some victims will just drop charges because they are scared (people assaulted by their partner, mob-victims etc)

Ultimately there are some types of cases where if the victim does not want to cooperate, it isn't going to succeed.

Also, government attorneys can be elected officials. Spending time achieving nothing against a bunch of uncooperative screwball artists isn't going to be something to brag about on the campaign trail.

Usually the attorneys who handle this are not state level but county or city level. In general they have so many cases to handle that victims who don't want the case pursued will cause them to drop the case.

Participation of the victim makes prosecution easier. That's all pressing charges means, even if it isn't what many people understand it to be.

There are performance artists literally risking their lives to make political protest art.

Your stereotypes do not emcompass all of the world.

at least they actually get to do something