“This” and “larger scale” are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. > AI is just enabling this on a larger scale, which will disrupt many fields If removing the artist entirely was part of that discussion, I suspect the tooling and legal landscape would look rather different today.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare the impact of the advent of digital painting tools with the advent of tools that systematically ingest all paintings and the remove the need for the original artist entirely. There is a certain structural similarity between AI and these past advanced in the form of: new thing disrupts old thing.īut I think it’s deeply problematic to take that analogy much further.

We had very different discussions about all of those things.

We've had this discussion with digital art and photography, and decades ago with electronic music, remixes and sampling