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> 1. So AI companies royally screwed over artists and other culture workers.

Counterpoint: AI's displacement of culture workers is to this point negligible. Nobody is consuming AI-generated media, except maybe in the trashiest tier of tiktok scrolling. Culture workers feel screwed, but they have not in fact been screwed.

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The "artists and other culture workers" are now the rest of the population, making what they want without needing to passively consume the legacy media.