You've lost me here. Are you saying that the most important factor when judging whether or not something is appropriate is based on whether or not the activity is dangerous enough to be fatal?
There are plenty of laws and cultural/ethical norms that restrict behavior for many other reasons.
> If a person never leaves and keeps notes, yes, it is exactly the same. I'd call the police for stalking.
You're arguing that a person taking notes with a pen and paper is the same as a video camera recording the same scene?
> The issue here is privacy, which is tangential to AI reproducing the styles of known individuals.
The point is that two forms of "seeing", one mechanical, and one biological, have two very different implications. If you don't believe that, ask the hypothetical person with a notebook to provide you with a 4K rendering of the scene over the last 30 days.
The AI reproducing art is just a single use case. The point of concern has little to do with how innocuous it is to produce images, but whether or not it is acceptable to use arguments about humans when judging what is or is not acceptable in an AI program.
> Completely disagree with you about the nature of learning here. If a person produces art in the style of an individual, they have no idea the internal machinations of the original artist, they just "appear to 'know' what they are doing".
Frankly, this is nonsense. We may not understand all of the underlying processes involved in learning, but we certainly know a lot more than nothing. Even if we knew literally nothing at all about the human brain, there is no standing to conclude that this lack of knowledge must imply that humans use some internal denoising algorithm when imagining what they will draw next.
We know enough to know that human processing of information is subjective, contextual, cultural, emotional, and there are a myriad of factors involved.
We know enough to know that what software like Stable Diffusion is doing looks very little like the human process for achieving a similar outcome, even if there are biologically inspired components inside.
