[vunderba]

I'm not going to bother engaging with... whatever ideological soapbox this is, so I'm just going to address one baffling assertion:

"Never ever claim to support the poor if you get butthurt at the idea that poor people can now access tools to create beautiful art."

Being able to afford a decent laptop/machine to run diffusion models or a SaaS subscription to Midjourney is VASTLY less financially viable to poor people then just putting pencil to paper.

Poor people have ALWAYS been artists, and artists have ALMOST ALWAYS been poor people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_artist

[defrost]

Late edit to ALMOST ALWAYS I see .. all the same ..

Did Jeff Koons have his "poor people" phase while working as a Wall Street commodities broker before going on to flog shit artworks for millions?