This is what I'm dealing with: Assignment I gave to one of my classes.....

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65. The AI companies have leaned very hard into promoting AI "democratizing" talent - letting people

without particular knowledge/skills/creativity pretend they have those abilities thanks to AI trained illegally on datasets of stolen intellectual property created by real people with real knowledge and real abilities that they worked hard to acquire.

AI companies like to trash those real creatives as "gatekeepers" whose only reason for opposing genAI is supposedly to prevent those poor discriminated-against AI users from also being able to express their creativity and perhaps make some money from it.

This is bullshit, of course, but it appeals to people who want to be rewarded without doing the work, to get applause without any accomplishment...and who might have long envied those real creatives they hope AI will enable them to replace.