i think artists not wanting our work to be fed to ai without our permission is intrinsic reason enough why it shouldn't happen
my political perspective: what artists “want” is completely immaterial to IP legislation, which is & always has been founded on the ‘wants’ of corporate rightsholders who exploit barriers to entry and monopolistic distribution practices to demand ownership of artist’s works upon which they can establish new and ever more garish practices of rentseeking
my personal perspective: to hell with what artists give permisison to be done with their work. you are free to criticize, to rail against, to disparage uses of your work you think are wrong, or facile – just as cervantes excoriated shoddy third-party sequels in the second part of don quixote – but if you wish to take preventative measures, to enforce your disapproval upon potential remixers and reusers, i think your sophomoric preciousness about your work makes you an enemy of everything i value about art and culture. you are fighting for a world without cross, without the low end theory, without garfield minus garfield or lasagna cat, without centos or cutups or blackout poetry, without video game modding, without plunderphonics or youtube poop or collage. anne rice’s world, a world immeasurably poorer with a dead culture pinned to a board and preserved by immersion in the logics of capital