Anthropomorphizing image generators and describing them as merely being “inspired” by their training data, like artists are inspired by other artists, is not only misguided but also harmful. Ascribing #agency to image generators diminishes the complexity of human creativity, robs artists of credit (and in many cases compensation), and transfers #accountability from the organizations creating image generators, and the practices of these organizations which should be scrutinized, to the image generators themselves

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