Such a big thread, takes me so long just to read through all the reply's. It's so much...
>>153721
>>153723
There are a couple of search engines that can hide it. Like duckduckgo recently added the feature but they are kinda sketchy now so I'm not sure which engine to trust anymore with my searches.
You can also try using dashes in the search like -ai -midjourney, etc... I was recently finding it difficult to find non-ai work to get inspiration from. I do a bit of drawing as well.
>>153727
>>153755
Correct! Physical stuff can't really be copied so to speak my initial example isn't very good. Something like software takes a lot of work and skill to make. Like Photoshop and it's many iterations, it stood as the best but now with many different alternatives like GIMP. And it's many version been cracked, it's value has decreased.

>>153757
>A thought I generally think is important to consider is: Better for who?

Oh goodness, this cuts right into my initial statement of morality! Even trivializing morality down to "Don't do things that hurt others" Really doesn't work!!!
I read every crossthread link you posted (Actually I read them already and posted in one with a reply way before, but I read them again!!).
Dang-it how do we decide the morality on all this? Murder is bad, but is it..? It's bad for one person but maybe really good for the Mister stabby?? I suppose maybe we could narrow it down to simply being "unfair". But people losing their jobs to computers was unfair but that's life. That's just how the cookie crumbles!

Ah! How bout this? Paying for the work that someone does on a non-physical asset like art or a software is a form of respect!
That's simple enough for me!

Screw morality, homocide is A-okay!
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I still wouldn't kill anyone though. (´～`)