.@wordgrammer on how “AI art is theft” became a lasting reputational problem for AI, and why the same mistake is now repeating with mathematicians: "I compare it to a leaky pipe. A lot of people in the AI industry completely forgot about the, quote, steal from artists issue, and I think that artists never quite got over that." "The damage to the reputation of the AI industry has in very large part been driven by artists who that initial starting point rubbed the wrong way. They've used all their cultural influence and capital to turn people against AI." "Something very similar is happening right now with mathematicians. It would be easy to fix it right now and address the issues of mathematicians." "If it goes untouched, over the course of a year, maybe two years, maybe three years, the public's perception of AI will be just so bad that it might be impossible to break."