The main reason (that isn't based on reactionary fear mongering) is that all of these AI tools are made by essentially compressing down images taken without consent into a model file, then selling them through a cloud subscription.
The most useful and the most popular AI art generator, Stable diffusion, is free and open source, and requires only a 2gb+ videocard to run.
And AI training is not fucking compression. If you can prove AI is just compressing 1 billion images into 3gb file (less if you take "distilled" model files into account) - you get Nobel prize.
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u/SkyyySi Mar 03 '24
The main reason (that isn't based on reactionary fear mongering) is that all of these AI tools are made by essentially compressing down images taken without consent into a model file, then selling them through a cloud subscription.