Finally, the “stealing art” argument, which is equally infuriating to me. In my personal opinion, as someone who regards science as the only truth, the process through which human beings, as meat sacks full of chemicals, produce art from references throughout their lives, should be considered not particularly different from the process through which AI(especially as it becomes more sophisticated) creates art. As if human brains aren’t also following some mathematical/physical process(which, again, if you believe in science, and not some metaphysical “soul”, should absolutely be true!) to remix the things they have seen in their lives.

Whether the process by which a human being produces art, and the process by which a deep learning model produces art, are isomorphic, is orthogonal to whether or not the process itself constitutes theft. Nobody likes this guy:

The boundaries between imitation, and remix, and so-called “original” works, are all fuzzy, but they do exist. And they will continue to exist under any politico-economic system.

Also, intellectual property is bullshit. if you believe in intellectual property as a principle, you are just straight up not a communist.

Authorship exists independently of politico-economic systems, and each such system will need to determine the extent to which it values and respects it. Under capitalism, the point of so-called intellectual property, like all commodities, is profit. Not public benefit. Not expression. Not for the ego boost. Not for-the-fuck-of-it. Just profit. As much of it and for as long as possible. Communism will need its own answer. And ideally, it will be an answer that balances the material needs of the people who make it, the material costs of making it, and the broader public good.