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Well we can't agree. Credit card numbers in this context would be one that is like all credit card numbers.

To try an explain this as my particular number doesn't make sense in the context that no one is giving away an exact copy.

But since you can't seem to give it up: I do give out my credit card number all the time, obviously, and the use of it is either valid or fraud. As in misrepresentation, not that the number itself is special, the use of it is. Which is what I said in the first place: intent of fraud.

I get what you are trying to do, but it just doesn't fit this analogy, nor the analogy of information wants to be free.

But you seem to not understand much, so the conversation is difficult. In saying a painted something similar to someone else, I meant a copy as in a I learned a style or a method, not an exact copy. Plagiarism is a specific word.

You are you, but someone writing a book and in need of a cover, someone wanting concept art for a game, someone with a YouTube channel in need of a logo/avatar, or many other examples don’t care about what the artist have to say, they just need a piece of art to be a part of the thing they’re trying to sell.

So you are saying the person now can make those things themselves? Welcome to progress. Graphic artists saw the invention of clip art (they used to be sold in physical form by the book, hence the name), the press, the copy machine, ink makers, mechanics change and fade away over time. People could make cheap newsletters, ads, etc that they couldn't do before.The press changed everything, photography changed everything, then computers changed everything. A light table wasn't an idea, it was a real thing. All of those positions, all of those devices, all of the people who maintained and worked on those went away. People could draw and erase a thousands times, hit undo over and over, use tools the mimicked everything that was done by hand, without spending a thing. It already happened to all those people, it is happening again. But it enables another group of people to do it themselves, and another group of people to stand out above their peers because they are good at it.

It makes the cheap things easy to do. But if you want to make a real poster, avatar, a large game and can afford the help, an artist is worth the pay. AI does't know what it is doing, it has no vision. Making something cheap is cheaply made of course.