I want to detour for a second into using AI tools for non-art work- My husband who is one of the least techy people I know has starting using Microsoft's Copilot at his job. His work uses Teams for meetings so calls gets transcribed, and copilot does an impressively good job at doing things like summarizing the call,…
Well there are basically two layers to this : at the lowest level, there are the billions of images and artists (+ all the relevant metadata) that got scraped and potentially given some so-called "aesthetic rating" in Laion5B - all done and used without consent. A simply query through HaveIBeenTrained using any random…