But people said the same thing about photography and painting 150 years ago!
This is entirely different from that. Landscaping had aesthetic value after photography because people were able to embellish and stylize landscapes in ways they didn't actually exist in real life. There is no way to "escape" from AI into more stylization. All it takes is enough of those new stylized images and it'll be able to replicate it. This is different from photography because photography can't learn.
But people want human expression!
Yes, they do, but they'll probably only realize this after a couple decades of art [almost] completely uninspired by the human condition and depression and anxiety skyrockets. In the short term, people will only care that they can type into a field and get what they want without any significant investment. Good luck finding an art job that isn't just making prompts in that economy (And if you say that making prompts is the same as being a painter or illustrator, yes it is art but no it isn't the same and fuck you).
I rest my case, art automation is cool but under capitalism it'll only be used to devalue artists further, and drive them deeper into poverty. It would be a great tool in a society capable of regulating itself but WE DON'T LIVE IN THAT SOCIETY AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO POINT THAT OUT.
STOP LISTENING TO :melon-musk: :debatebro-l: AND SUPPORT YOUR ARTIST COMRADES NOW
Now that I got your attention with my inflammatory statements, please commission your artist comrades and support them in their struggle to exist in what is already a very punishing world to live in. I promise to give any of you that do big hugs, I love you all, and bye.
A lot of people get uncomfortable when it's pointed out that they've been punching down.
If you want sympathy out of this world, first you have to put it in.
What's the magical sympathy quota that must be given to the world before one deserves it back? The leftist position is that we feel for our fellow humans because we can see a better life for all. The vegan position pushes that all life deserves to be treated with respect and that the inhumane conditions we subject other creatures to is unconscionable. People can have worse experiences under capitalism than others, it does not invalidate the fact that a nurse working 12 hour days with a patient load 2 times the pre-covid levels has a hard job. The child slave working on a cocoa plantation has it worse but the leftist position states that both deserve a better life. An artist has to go through a different set of stressors and challenges than the nurse, artists are underpaid and overworked like pretty much every worker under capitalism. Just because some artists can be dicks and class traitors does not condemn an entire facet of the human condition. Art has existed for millennia and to say that you don't care because some American artist made a painting that made fun of rural farmers is to miss the entire goddamn point of being a leftist.
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