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highplainsdem

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7. AI users are not producing or creating anything themselves. They're using plagiarism machines
Tue Jan 27, 2026, 09:33 PM
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trained on other people's work, and they have little control over what's generated, though they can keep rejecting what the AI offers until they get something they find acceptable. What they're doing is more like online shopping using keywords, and they no more created the words, images or music the AI generated than someone shopping for an item of clothing by brand, color and size made that piece of clothing.

They're AI users. In no way are they artists. They show zero respect for the artists whose work was stolen to train the AI, and they deserve zero attention and respect.

There's no way to know how much of these videos that YouTube channel owner created. He's using AI art. At least some of the voices are AI. If he uses AI for those, there's a good chance he uses it to write the lyrics. He might be asking a chatbot for ideas for those videos.

And he asks for donations. His top supporter currently with those donations is someone with another AI slop channel.

I have no idea how much he might make from these videos. But there's no way around the fact he's using AI tools trained on work stolen from real artists, and that's unethical.

If he wants to do parody songs, he should simply write the lyrics and sing them himself. And not use AI of any type.

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