[watwut]

> There is a visceral hate in the artistic community toward AI that doesn't really make sense to me tbh.

Really? Have you seen how the CEOs marketed it and talked about people in that community? Artists hate it, because they listened to what AI community and leadership were openly saying.

The weirdest thing on this all is how people find the hate puzzling considering initial rhetoric coming from the industry itself. And current rhetoric for that matter.

[bluefirebrand]

Right? AI evangelists never seem to miss an opportunity to be clueless about this

"Why do you guys hate AI so much? All I did was tell you it's so great that it makes your skills worthless and how glad I am that I won't need people like you around in the future to make art and designs. What's wrong with that?"

[watwut]

What I noticed was that it was not just about money. It is not like people could live out of art last decades anyway. Artists actually know it better then anyone. But the disdain toward things artistic people value and like was noticeable. Even when one has bad economic news, surely it should be possible to say then without being gleeful arrogant jerk. Which is exactly what the message was.

It is just ... we insulted those people, told them they are worthless, when they want to talk about things they like doing we tell them they should use AI and then we act all puzzled they hate us. How could that happen.

And you can see it again and again.

[bluefirebrand]

That's certainly a big part of it for me too

There's a large amount of voices, both online and off, that are sneering. Between crabs in a bucket happy that software devs are being clawed down, and people happy thinking they no longer need us

I'm worn down by a cacophony of voices telling me I'm no longer wanted or needed. I'm very tired.

[matheusmoreira]

Have you seen the arrogance of artists? They acted as though they were above replacement, above automation. They acted as though they were superior.

We're all facing very hard times ahead of us, but I would be lying if I said it wasn't at least a little cathartic to watch this unfold. Programmers, too, were just as arrogant until only a few years ago. As were doctors, lawyers... The list goes on. How the mighty have fallen.

Now we just gotta allow AIs to replace all these lavishly compensated CEOs too. Now that'd be epic.

[Planktonne]

Do you see how this sort of hate-filled malevolence, as a pro-AI position, might make people less excited about AI?

A lot of people are looking at AI now and seeing that its proponents sound like cartoon villains. That sends a message.

[matheusmoreira]

I certainly do. The only point I'm making is those people are sending plenty of messages of their own. You say that AI proponents sound like cartoon villains. To me the AI detractors sound a lot like elite lords being forcibly deposed from their titles. People who thought they were superior, but were proven wrong.

The only crime here would be stopping the AI onslaught just short of replacing the really powerful people. Let it happen.

[Planktonne]

I don't think I've seen anything that smacks of elite lordship. Artists don't generally believe that other people should have their livelihoods taken away for the crime of not being artists.