#this alone is reason enough for why these ai models shouldn't be created

[harrowing-of-hell]

i think the big thing is that there just isn't any way to ethically create ai generated content, at least with the way training ai models currently works

for the sake of conciseness, lets just focus on the amount of labor required to produce the images text-to-image ai models are trained on

theoretically, you could hire a bunch of artists whose jobs are to create art to feed into an algorithm and train it. there's no wage theft here.

in theory, that could work.

reality is, these models are trained on so many images that there is no way to do this ethically.

for example, DALL-E, which is a text-to-image model developed by OpenAI, was trained on 250 million images

to pay the labor force that would be required to even produce that many images... ignoring the amount of time that would take even with thousands of artists, there's just literally no fucking way.

this is precisely why these ai models, both text-to-image ai art generators similar to DALL-E and LLMs like ChatGPT, resort to scraping the internet for data to train their models on. they have no other option besides just... not making the model to begin with.

the only way to realistically create a good ai model meant to function like these two examples is to resort to unethical methods

and again, this is ignoring all the other ethical concerns with ai generated content! this is the reality of JUST training these models to begin with!