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Old 03-24-2023, 12:34 PM   #118
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Originally Posted by andyh2000 View Post
I think I'm agreeing with you that there isn't much ethical difference in getting a machine to copy someone else's work/style versus paying a person to do it. If they both took the same length of time then you'd still use the machine as I'd expect it to be cheaper (no hungry kids to feed).

Andrew
Yes, which then casts the entire discussion into stark relief: does it matter, other than preserving an artist's livelihood and is this societally required, or is it sort of "tough luck," just like when robot automation changed factory life and all that? And everybody has to simply 'adjust'? Does not seem to have done Detroit much good.

Hard to know.

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