a lot of which is motivated by a sense of unfairness
Say you generate a picture with midjourney - who is/are the closest artist(s) you can find for that picture?
Not the AI, not the prompter, so the closest artists you can find for that picture are the ones who made the pictures in the training set. So generating a picture is outright copyright infringement. Nothing to do with unfairness in the sense of "artists get out compete". Artists dont get out compete - they are stolen.
Typical Midjourney workflow involves constantly reprompting and fine tuning based on examples and input images. When you arrive at a given image in Midjourney, it’s often impossible to recreate it even with the same seed. You’ll need the input image as well, and the input image is often the result of a long creative process.
Why is it you discount the creative input of the user? Are they not doing work by guiding the agent? Don’t their choices of prompt, input image, and the refinement of subsequent generated images represent a creative process?
Say you generate a picture with midjourney - who is/are the closest artist(s) you can find for that picture?
Not the AI, not the prompter, so the closest artists you can find for that picture are the ones who made the pictures in the training set. So generating a picture is outright copyright infringement. Nothing to do with unfairness in the sense of "artists get out compete". Artists dont get out compete - they are stolen.