Ah sorry, I left the site for 2 hours and I did not realize my thread would kick off so many replies. I'm surprised to get so much attention.

>>153704
Is that Utilitarianism?
Also the bread is not made from dirt but rather it is made from the baker's hands. The baker cannot continue creating if people keep copy-pasting the fruits of their labour. If the baker's decide not to cook anymore now nobody gets anything.

Now this fictional scenario does not compare well to the real world. Media piracy usually numbers very little compared to sales and Ai have enough data to scrape that it wouldn't hurt them at all if artist's never drew again. Though eventually I think people will notice issues. (I think?)

>>153708
>an "online artist" capable of "changing" their "artstyle" (that is, they are not locked into one artsyle) opens up a million "commission slots", each with a price point set at 0.01 cents. Why do they set the price so low? Literally any reason can be given

That's an interesting idea that can be applied to anything. Take Tv's for example. If someone rich decide to produce billions of tv's and sell them for 1$ for about a month, it would absolutely crash the market for tv's. It wouldn't make a profit but also no other company can make a profit either. Especially if those tv's didn't have any planned obsolescence within their design. It would take 10 years for the world to recover from such an event.
I'm not even sure where to draw the line in morality.
What do we even make of this event? It's very beneficial to all else.

>If two parties have wants that oppose each other, who decides whether one is "right" and the other is "wrong"? Or rather how do you decide which of these wants is more important to meet than the other?

You're right spot on. It's hard to even place morality in this situation. That's a doozy. We follow morality because it creates a better society so does Ai generating someone's work make a worse society? What if it was posted online? What if everyone started doing that? What would be the end result?

>I'll post more later; this is getting long. Read through this other thread I made.

I sure did read it all! It's sad you didn't get any good replies other than chatGBT, I guess everyone was retarded that day. Strange.
I think people online should be more encouraging about telling people to take on greater challenge. It shouldn't be "Cheater!! No-skill!!!", they should reply with a more positive way like "Nice job, a trick to that boss is to roll towards the slashes!" (dark souls example) or for Minecraft "Try leaving a special block or torch to never lose your way." To encourage players on navigation so they won't feel as afraid to lose their items on death. Yes I know people aren't realistically that nice or positive but I will dream
Taking on greater challenges is very rewarding, (usually) I wish more people encouraged me when I was little to take on greater challenges.

>you can be dropped at a moment's notice for reasons beyond your comprehension.

There was a time of Human computers that would take like a week to calculate complicated stuff (like at NASA). Now there's a computer to do that. Oh how they lament, their job that takes a lot of brainpower to do is obsolete and replaced. Sad but the world is (I think) a better place for it.

>Also, why is it that a common talking point is that "piracy" is "morally justified"?

I think it's a fun talking point, under the guise of fact that I will do it anyway regardless of the answer. (;ﾟДﾟ)