Like all automation, it would be cool if it didn't mean workers were staring down the barrel of capitol's gun. I love the cool art machine learning models can generate. Would be even cooler if we lived in a world where this didn't threaten anybody and couldn't be used as a cudjol.
We can make a world where this is the case. Suck my guts (girl nuts) for more objectively correct takes you slop hogs.
buddy I've got news for you about how every other process of industrialisation has happened under capital. Where do you think the cotton in the loom came from?
An automation being used to exploit people != an automation requiring exploitation to even work
plenty of public domain art out there! would make slightly weaker, less profitable, models but is still entirely viable as training data
Pretty sure a company could pay a license fee to access stock photos or any photos they wanted, to use alongside public domain photos.