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Anarchists dont recognize copyright as a moral or ethical framework.
No, but we do recognize scabbing, plus lets not forget the effects AI has had on people's mental health. I would also argue there is a moral and ethical issue with taking other people's work without crediting that goes beyond just copyright. Particularly so when trying to profit off of it.
Lastly, to build off of my scabbing point. If we look at prior historical cases that are comparable, like the automation that sparked the Luddite movement, I think that its easy to see how anti-AI is pro-worker. AI (like industrialization) costs workers jobs, and while we live in a society that requires you to work to live, that is bad. It is not to say industrialization (or AI in this case) is inherently bad. Just simply that until society no longer works this way, it is harmful to workers. And in case it needs clarification, artists are workers.
for me it's the one-two punch - built off of theft, that then puts the people it stole from out of work. but a) it's not accurate, and b) it's costing trillions (and jacking up the price for components, WATER AND POWER. So why are we even going further down this silly broken road...
Also there's the whole "people should have access to the essentials of life" ethical angle.
The societies we live with the rule systems we have will totally fuck anybody who loses their job to even otherwise ethically trained and operated Machine Learning systems.
There are far fewer fully ethical ML uses possible when in a social and legal system were losing a job to AI might mean ending up living under a bridge.
I don't see it as an issue of copyright but of consent and plagiarism.
Which I would be up with if we lived in the theoretical left-wing anarchist utopia, otherwise big corpos will just sell independent artist's works as their own.