Do Artists Benefit From Copying Their Art?

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I think there's some sort of push and pull or advantages and disadvantage to this for artists. There are definitely cases where artists are screwed by people copying their work, but then there are other cases like Banksy that leaned into it. I don't know how this is going to advance, but it really can go either way. But it's kind of crazy to me that it's this one person style that gained so much attention.

For years, people thought that artificial intelligence would wipe out repetitive tasks, but leave the creatives untouched. But recent developments have left many people surprised and taken the creative world by storm.

Tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion gave anyone with a keyboard and a wifi connection the ability to spin up images from text prompts, far earlier and higher quality than many imagined.

So what comes next for the artists... the writers... the musicians...? No one knows for sure, but in this episode Cal and Steph discuss the exciting new world of generative AI. They discuss what it is (and isn't), the tools they've played with, how culture and trust are shifting, who "wins" in this new world, and what they think might be on the horizon.