in order to learn a language we have to buy a book and read it, so we did pay someone for our knowledge we then sell.
What if an artist got inspiration from a Google image search, without paying the creators for that? I think that’s fine, and I don’t see why it’s suddenly wrong when a machine learning algorithm does it.
Seems like they haven’t gained traction since the reddit exodus. I wonder how the other alternatives are doing. Lemmy has a decent amount of activity at least, although I still wish more people would use it.