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If you look at my comment history you will see I am pretty outspoken in being against the system. But I am also fundamentally a technologist and believe in constant forward progress. AI is going to automate “commercial” artists. This is a fact. That was all I was speaking to. For better or for worse, this will happen, it needs to happen, it should not be resisted, and we all need to adapt to this new reality. It is fundamentally another piece in the collapse of materialism and capital. Soon, all work will be machine-renderable, and what then? We will all be out of “jobs” and will need to rediscover what it means to be humans. A pursuit of experience, meditation, exploration, and significantly less tedious creation — it will be a radically different experience, and far more fundamental to our true nature, than what we experience now. Me personally? I love to paint, write, and make video games. I love nature and would rather be hiking in remote terrain than pretty much anything else. But there is a lot of work to be done to make what I described in the previous paragraph a reality, and I have skills that can contribute to it, so I do that instead of what personally want. None of us are entitled to simply do what we want while most of us suffer and struggle. Some artists are skilled and lucky enough where they can make money. That bar is going to go a lot higher now with AI. Artists should be compensated, but for whatever reason, fate would have it that work of the soul might involve acceptance of poverty. It isn’t about capitalism, it is about purity. I think we need universal basic income so that people can pursue their passions without concern of the finances. I also think that passionate people don’t care much about riches; and if they do, that occupies space in a mind that could otherwise be used for their art, and so someone else who properly uses that space will be more capable than them. This is why parasites can take so much from the top artists; they just don’t have the capacity left for that kind of bullshit. The term “get a real job” might be harsh, but it simply means “get a job capital is interested in paying for”. This criteria constantly changes and AI is pushing it radically. Most people trudge through the shit show of that reality, just because someone calls themself an artist doesn’t make them exempt. I don’t agree with this reality so I would like to see it changed, but we cannot be offended by speaking about the way something is. This is the way it is. If we don’t like it, let’s change it. |