General Discussion

of intellectual property around the world? You act as if their willingness to ignore it makes them valid spokespeople for artists, no matter how many other people are hurt. It doesn't. It makes them callous about that theft.

And the theft is continuing.

People around the world are being exploited and abused by genAI companies. Artists using AI are siding with the abusers.

As far as the validity of their work as art - trends come and go. Some artists and critics like to latch on to anything new and hype it.

And btw, with all the cautionary stories about people becoming emotionally dependent on chatbots, performance art like Dinkins' conversations with a robot starting in 2014 could be very harmful for anyone emulating her, especially anyone young.

The page about that - https://www.stephaniedinkins.com/conversations-with-bina48.html - says the robot she's talking to is "capable of independent thought and emotion" - which anyone familiar with AI knows is nonsense.

The company providing that robot is also interested in transhumanism - which is mentioned on that page - and in the so-called singularity, which they've programmed the robot to prefer to talk about. If it is really a chatbot at all and isn't something like Musk's fake robots controlled by humans.

The singularity and transhumanism are both Silicon Valley fever dreams, which she's promoting by what she's doing.