"In defense of AI art".
YouTuber "LiquidZulu" makes a gigantic video aimed at responding once and for all to all possible arguments against AI art.
His primary argument seems to me to be that AI art systems are learning art in a manner analogous to human artists -- by learning from examples from other artists -- and do not plagiarize because they do not copy exactly any artists' work. In contrast AI art systems are actually good at combining styles in new ways. Therefore, AI art generators are just as valid "artists" as any human artists.
Artists have no right to government protection from getting their jobs get replaced by technology, he says, because nobody anywhere else in the economy has any right to government protection to getting their jobs replaced by technology.
On the flip side, he thinks the ability of AI art generators to bring the ability to create art to the masses is a good thing that should be celebrated.
Below-average artists have no right to deprive people of this ability to generate the art they like because those low-quality artists want to be paid.
Apparently he considers himself an anarcho-capitalist (something he has in common with... nobody here?) and has has harsh words for people he considers neo-Luddites. He accuses artists complaining about AI art generators of being "elitist".
