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And you haters have nothing substantial to say beside screaming that the whole world should stop just so you don't have to adapt to a changing world
The funniest thing is the current system isn't even very good for artists, you're fighting to protect capitalism when capitalism is shitting all over you but because you can imagine a situation where you're slightly higher up the stack than other people you're fighting desperately for your chance to shit on people below you. It really is shameful tbh.
I don't hate ai assisted technologies. I just think it's hilarious that you've been ranting and raving about how artists are the true ruling class and ai is our how we break the chains of their oppression.
You see these technologies as somehow a means of democratizing all creative endeavors. I see these technologies, as they stand, as just the latest in the attempts of those who own the tech and data to siphon even more control, autonomy, and wealth from the rest of us
But yeah dude, have fun typing in prompts and feeling like you did something cool.
No one said they're the true ruling class, the fact you have to purposely missrepresent what I'm saying to attack it makes it pretty clear your arguments hold no worth.
You say that AI is an attack on your wealth and autonomy because you see Art as nothing but a way of making money, from your comment about doing something cool you maybe have a vague notion that being an Artist confers higher higher status. You want to protect your status and earnings and that's all you think about, I totally understand that but I think it makes for a very poor position to argue morality.
I personally think art is more than just a way to make money, there is great utility in the visual image practically, emotionally and socially. It didn't kill art when people could cheat with Photoshop, it didn't kill art when people could cheat with cameras, it didn't kill art when people could cheat with quick drying paints... Giving people free access to diffusion based image generation isn't going to kill art either and it's certainly not going to limit anyone's creativity or put restrictions on their freedom.
Sorry bout you were never the keeper of a forbidden jitsu, me being able to generate some images for my open source project isn't taking away your special role in society or robbing you of your glory - you never had it to start with, it never existed anywhere but your delusions. The visual image is a utility which can be used for many useful purposes, why shouldn't anyone with a story be able to tell it? Why shouldn't anyone with a vision be able to depict it?
So yes when I make cool things using modern technology I will enjoy that feeling, it's sad you'd try to take that away from me rather than celebrate others joy with them but it's the capitalist mindset, you want to create artificial scarcity for your own personal profit, you feel that even something as pure as joy must be hoarded and that if others feel it then it devalues yours.
And I know it must seem I have something against you but honestly I just feel sorry for how deeply the brainworm of greed has poisoned your vision of the world, you fight for a system that only hurts you because you're so focused on being a rung up from the bottom that you can't even imagine anything but that fight for dominance which consumes you. All I hope is that you don't get in the way of the better world that's coming, because it won't stop for you.
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