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AI companies can’t champion responsible innovation while treating artists’ work as free training material. If the allegations are proven, that raises serious questions about consent, copyright and accountability. The same standards of responsibility should apply to everyone.

As an artist, I recognize that I've trained myself on the works of others, largely without consent. This is simply how one learns a craft. So, why should I consider it to be unethical to train a machine on said works? What's the machine doing that makes it's process uniquely unethical?