The cover of The Lancet, and their article on RFK Jr.

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92. There are a lot of artists who are actually disabled who hate AI art, who've had some success as

artists and had their own careers hurt by completely unethical AI tools trained on data sets of intellectual property stolen by AI robber barons.

There's nothing ethical or acceptable about choosing to use tech based on theft, especially work stolen from other artists.

If you're aware that the tech is built on theft, using it might be what you would like to call a creative choice, but it's also an unethical one.

It looks terrible for liberals to promote tools from oligarchs who exploited creatives and workers of all types by stealing intellectual property in the hope of putting the people they stole from out of work.

And anyone who's actually done anything creative knows that giving prompts to AI that does the work for you is no more creative than asking someone else to create something for you. It's no more creative than shopping online using keywords, or ordering from a menu.