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by m00x 50 days ago
Good artists get paid plenty. The hard part of art was always about either representing emotion, or a story. AI can't do that as it has no emotion, nor story.
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> Good artists get paid plenty.

Absolutely false. You don’t even have to try hard to find scores of examples of great artists who died penniless. Artists who lived in squalor for decades until they broke through, and even then made only a modest living.

0.001% of which get “paid plenty” and that’s more due to business acumen.

Creative fields are cutthroat, brutal and soul crushing.

LLMs have proven that most people don’t care or can’t tell the difference between human expression and a probabilistic approximation of it.

On the other hand, this article is about a sports bar logo. Only in Santa Cruz would you see people lose their shit over something so trivial. Are we supposed to be moved to tears by the human expression of a cartoon otter on a tacky surfboard?