Since this fully bothers me on a recurring basis:
If I make any content, big or small, shitpost or dedicated art, you're free to share it.
If I didn't want it to be shared, I wouldn't make it public. Especially putting it on the information superhighway where data is shared so easily it's hard to not have it shared to corporations and governments.
If I wanted something hidden, I would either:
- Not post it online
- Say it privately over a phone call
- Write it down
- Not say or share it
Because when the Internet is a chain of someone else's computers, I'm silly to think I can personally stop someone from right clicking like an NFT chud.
So if you see me publicly sharing something, you can take it. Share the meme. Post the hot take. That's the point. If you wanna give attribution, go ahead.
If we needed explicit permission to share things in public, the Internet would have imploded in 1993, art shows couldn't exist with dead artists, and lots of weird things in public couldn't be documented.
And so it's clear: *Give artists credit. Don't steal their work for AI. Sharing art is not the same as claiming it.*