Nuking Anti-AI Nonsense From Orbit
It's over. You lost.
Gonna ride into this argument in style because contrary to popular belief, the pickings ain’t slim …
Bias Hidden Behind a Smile:
If someone wants to emotionally manipulate you into not doing something you are legally allowed to do, they are attempting to retain either power or authority over you.
Soak that in.
Now watch an actor smile and deliver an absolute trash, misinformed take on AI:
An actor delivering a garbage opinion with a smile doesn’t make the opinion less garbage. I do not need, nor am I waiting for anyone’s permission to create.
Neither should you.
Let’s keep something in mind. Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s wife is Tasha McCauley. Who is Tasha McCauley? She was on the board of directors of OpenAI, part of the bid to oust Sam Altman, failed spectacularly, and ended up leaving the board as the company restructured with Sam Altman being re-instated just days later.
But … but he seems so sincere and unbiased!
Yep.
Because he’s a good actor.
L after L for the Anti-AI Brigade:
Nov 2025: (UK)Getty v. Stability AI - Stable Diffusion “does not store or reproduce any Copyright Works (and has never done so)” - dismissing Getty’s infringement claims.
June 2025: Bartz v. Anthropic, Kadrey v. Meta - “training involves transformative use” without verbatim reproduction or storage. This even applies to publicly accessible pirating sites - bad faith in data sourcing does not negate fair use for training providing works are not being stored and directly reproduced.
Also 2025: Tremblay v. OpenAI, Andersen v. Stability AI - training on copyrighted materials is transformative when creating new tools rather than direct reproductions.
March 2025: US Court of Appeals confirms the ruling in Thaler v. Perlmutter - purely AI generated works without human authorship are legal, but not copyrightable - and explicitly noted works created “by or with the assistance of” AI can be protected if a human contributes through creative decisions on composition or editing.
January 2025: US Copyright Office report on AI and copyright states “sufficient human control over the expressive elements,” such as through iterative refinement or arrangement qualifies for copyright.
That’s loss after loss after loss for the anti crowd. We’ve gained clarity on copyright, clarity on training data, clarity on use.
You can hate it, but if you’re out here trying to emotionally manipulate people from some fraudulent position of moral authority, you’re just a gatekeeping shill attempting to hide behind a costume of righteousness.
Anti-AI Fallacies Breakdown:
We all see through it, and know why you’re resorting to logical fallacies and emotional manipulation.
Because you have no substantive arguments left.
You lost. All you have left are emotional arguments and logical twisters:
“You aren’t a REAL artist …” - Welcome to the No True Scotsman.
“You didn’t even go to art school …” Appeal to Authority, anyone?
“Pick up a pencil!” - Appeal to Tradition. This is getting easy.
“If we allow it human artists will go extinct!” - Slippery Slope. Please.
“You just want free art without effort!” - Straw Man. You look stupid.
“You’re just lazy! A failed artist!” - Ad Hominem. You’re a shit-bag. See?
“You’re stealing from hard working creators!” - Appeal to Emotion. Also, legally incorrect (see citations above).
“You either create it by hand, or it isn’t art!” - False Dichotomy. Stop it.
“AI art feels like cheating!” - Moralistic Fallacy. Emotional guilt trip.
“Prove you didn’t copy an artists style!” - Burden of Proof Reversal - The cases I cited above demolish this argument.
BONUS FALLACY - Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s argument is a Genetic Fallacy: “It’s tainted because it was stolen!” - even though courts ruled contrary.
This is what it looks like when you’ve entrenched yourself in an indefensible position, and your personal cognitive dissonance is not allowing you to see the landscape logically.
You.
Lost.
It’s Art:
Do not let anyone tell you what you can and cannot legally do, what you can and cannot create, and what you should or should not be proud of creating solely on the basis of them trying to manipulate you emotionally.
They are wrong. Go make art, and make no mistake, it IS artistry to imagine, curate, iterate, create, and tell stories through words, music, and visuals, even if the tools are AI and not a physical paintbrush.
This. Is. Art:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a gatekeeping shit-bag, and that’s okay. I’ll still watch “The Night Before” every Christmas season, because Joseph Gordon-Levitt has every right to issue a garbage opinion, and he’s not any more intelligent than your average X shitposter anyway. He’s a harmless guy with a cool job and fairly questionable motivations in this space because of his wife’s history with OpenAI.
My Final Passing Shot:
I’m going to continue my artistry with the tools I have available, be it via music or imagery. I am out here creating worlds and telling stories with whatever tool I can get my hands on because that’s what I do.
When I hold the position of being ANTI-GATEKEEPING that’s not just reserved for convenience, or only reserved depending on which way the cultural wind is blowing.
You are either FOR indie creation, or you are AGAINST indie creation. You do not get to call yourself a “supporter of indies” and then pick and choose which flavor of independence you’re talking about.
Independence has one meaning.
When I hold the position of loathing creative gatekeepers, it’s a blanket position, not a pick-and-choose position like so many of the disingenuous folks in the self-publishing space.
*tools become available to self-publish a book, breaking the stranglehold of trad publishing industry*
Authors: “All hail the indie author!”
*tools become available to create music and video, breaking the stranglehold of the music and film industry*
Authors: “THEFT! YOU’RE STEALING! HOW DARE YOU!”
Might want to take inventory of the opinions you’re holding, Author friends, because they collapse your “I Love Indies!” righteousness like a house of cards in a hypocrisy typhoon.
Create, friends.
Be the storyteller, and ignore everyone and anyone that tries to manipulate you into self-censorship.
The world needs good stories. Make yourself heard.
Super helpful breakdown of the fallacies! Plus the updates on the law decisions is handy to have.
Brilliant breakdown of the rhetorical tactics at play here. The connection between Gordon-Levitt's OpenAI ties and his sudden moral crusade is spot-on, it's textbook motivated reasoning dressed up as ethics. I've watched creative gatekeeping shift across mediums for years, and the pattern is always the same: incumbents framing acces as theft when their advantage dissapears. The case law citations seal it.