> people who are willing to pay money for art seem to strongly prefer that their money goes to an artist, not a GPU cluster operator
Businesses which don't want to pay money strongly prefer AI.
Then they get a product that legally isn't theirs and anyone can do anything with it. AI output isn't anyone's IP, it can't be copyrighted.
Yeah but if they, for example use AI to do their design or marketing materials then the public seems to dislike that. But again, no numbers that's just how it feels to me.