Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter (opens in new tab)

I think this is a conversation worth having, but personally I haven't made any decisions. There are a few interesting names on there though, from VOX, The New York Review of Books, and In Our Times. I think the community just needs to be aware that these types of pushback are happening, esp in the light of the Writer's Guild strike. The timing has to be intentional.

I love generative AI for ideation, esp around product design, but I don't think (at this point) I'd use any of what it generates as my final work anyway. But that's just me.

> copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge ... art heist ... daylight robbery

Rhetoric that pollutes the whole argument. The whole of art is there for an augmentation inside the public. We do not need to ask Flaubert to be inspired by Flaubert, and change ourselves and our ways after the inspiration - that is a basis of the cultural game. Copyright infringement is a very different thing.