I don’t see why they would use AI instead of picking an appropriate image or making something quick in Gimp or paint, it just makes me not want to be part of those communities.
I don’t see why they would use AI instead of picking an appropriate image or making something quick in Gimp or paint, it just makes me not want to be part of those communities.
I wouldn’t really call it appropriating, at least not any more than one could say the same for a song that samples or remixes another. It’s just a derivative work. Like replacing the Mona Lisa with a portrait of some other character.