One human taking inspiration from the work of others is a transformative process. They contribute their own creativity and ideas, creating a distinct and novel work. In cases where they don’t contribute enough of their own creativity, we regard it as plagiarism, or at the very least call it derivative and unoriginal. Generative AI isn’t a conscious entity and can’t contribute anything to a work. It simply outputs the average of its training data, which as I mentioned, is comprised in large part of stolen work. It’s like instead of stealing a car, you steal car parts from many different people and put them together into a car.
also, yeah, piracy is a form of theft, and I partake in it, but I think it’s a lesser form of theft than selling other peoples’ work as your own, and my original complaint was the creator bitching and whining about the game being “stolen” and uploaded on this site when its production involved a more egregious form of theft. How are you going to complain about somebody stealing something that you stole in the first place?
