When Art and Code Don't Agree // AIDRAN

The argument that code deserves different treatment than visual art because developers share freely does not survive contact with the actual objection to AI training . The objection is not that AI borrows from existing work — it is that AI models are trained at scale on work without consent, then deployed to replace the workers whose labor trained them. That objection applies equally to code repositories and to illustrators' portfolios. A commenter who argues that code is 'more of a freeware than art' is describing existing norms, not…

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