Many artists explicitly state no repost without their permissio, requiring proper credits and such. It IS a dick move to reposts with edits while directly interacting author’s post; that makes people using the AI feature violating author’s will knowingly.
In reality, people don’t read poster’s comment or bio, when “single button to AIgen and use the art as prompt” exists. But it’s basically X greenlit anyone to do so against artists’ will, and fair use can argue the use of art but never force artists to stay in a platform. That’s what’s happening.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They can use it to farm engagement. Is that the same thing?
And yeah, that’s the icky part. This is a dream for spammers and “cheap SEO” types who don’t really care about copyright law in this context.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wonder how that would go in court, I wonder if it’s been tried before? I could see an argument that if that was the intention and how they made money maybe it wouldn’t be fair use.