If you pirate content and complain about data scraping you're a big hypocrite

Some people believe artists should be able to get jobs as artists and make money. They also believe that pirating those artists art is acceptable, as long as they're not self employed and employed by a company.

Same artist same hands same mind, but 0 respect.

Companies are ecosystems full of regular people.

If you habe a value that if everyone followed, would be bad. Then fuck that value.

If you tell people pirating is ok. And everyone followed that advice every single artist would be out of a job. Which is pretty ironic don't you think. The same jobs artists want are paid for by people paying for the content.

Calling something that isn't piracy, piracy in an attempt to justify your own piracy is some mental gymnastics and a half.

It's not even the piracy that's super bothersome. It's the hypocrisy. It's the nerve to accuse all.ai art of breaching copyright, and taking artists jobs, and fucking them over while preaching pirating people's art is ok. People work hard to get those jobs.

There's a lot of anti ai sentiment that leans heavily on the no true scotsman fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No\_true\_Scotsman

When a artist is screwed or shamed or work is stolen by someone who are anti ai they are no longer a real artist. Not a true pure artist, not in it for the money but deserves a job bevause they want money. Is skilled at traditional art, or digital art as long as they use methods that are acceptable and seen as "true art". Art needs to take effort. but might just be a stick figure that took no effort but that's still art because it's not making money.

it's just never ending mental gymnastics to try snd distract from fundamnetal logic.

Pro ai sentiment is a lot simpler.

Art is art.

An artist is someone who makes art.

People should get paid for the jobs they do.

People should get to choose who they pay to do the jobs they do.

No glorifying piracy, no shitting on art. Not constantly finding new excuses to justify shitting on people's work.