'Nonfiction' Book About Maui Wildfire 'Smells of AI,' Gets Pulled From Amazon

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21. I would hate to see a world where most writers and artists use AI for fake creativity

and thinking.

And intellectual property is owned by the creator, UNLESS they choose to sell or otherwise transfer all rights and ownership.

People using AI to rip off a Disney character they have no right to SHOULD be sued, or at least shut down with cease-and-desist letters.

People are always free to create their own cartoon mice. Helping themselves to Disney's is both uncreative and theft.

Yes, you can make AI with any data set. It may produce some real crap.

I have never heard owners of intellectual property called gatekeepers. I run across that term most often in complaints from artists of different types who haven't become professionals yet and resent that fact and look for others besides themselves to blame.

Gatekeepers can be very useful in any field where people want to have some idea where and how to find the best - because it's impossible to sort through everything out there. So publishers have editors to sort through submissions, including from agents who also sort. Record labels have A&R people. The visual arts have gallery owners. Films and TV rely on agents. All are helped by reviews and articles about talent.

There is nothing wrong with that. And the artists own the intellectual property. The exception would be work for hire, where the artist has been hired to create something that will be owned by their employer. A commercial jingle, for instance.