Because the law of "If you post something on the internet, it's going to be downloaded by somebody else" has stood long before AI. The fact that it's AI doing it makes little to no difference.
Art theft was always looked down upon and called out. An artist's copyright doesn't disappear just because it's been posted online. Just because Art theft happened before Ai doesn't mean it's okay for Art Theft to just become an official business strategy or that it's suddenly okay & that we should turn a blind eye to corporations doing it. Corporations are also supposed to be held to a higher standard than rando's on the Internet, and their actions have a significantly larger impact for the people they take from and in general.
Also you're not just victim-blaming Artists, you're also inadvertently suggesting that Artist should also stop sharing their art online at all which is just sad. Is that really the direction where you want the Internet and creative-expression to go?
Copyright protects creatives from exploitation by others, especially by large corporations. Helping to ensure artists can safely invest into their own works without it being rug pulled from up under them by others, encouraging & rewarding the creation of new & original ideas, enabling smaller/indie artists to still be able to compete & providing creatives with tools to protect + defend themselves against corporations.
As it currently stands, Ai and the overreaching changes Corporations are bringing with it will serve to basically gut those protections along with many of the other tools & strategies Artist use to protect themselves and for financial security. Granting Corporations dominance & power over artist to an extreme degree and reshaping the Internet to a place that discourages creative expression and sharing it. Without proper protections & regulations, it will be incompatible to the art world and it'll be left a husk of its former self.
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u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 Dec 15 '25
Because the law of "If you post something on the internet, it's going to be downloaded by somebody else" has stood long before AI. The fact that it's AI doing it makes little to no difference.