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by Diogenesian
12 days ago
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"Reap what you sow"
It is kind of incredible that you're not focused at all on the copyright holders, instead focusing on random tech people you had online disagreements with.Artists and writers got screwed first by piracy, then by generative AI. They didn't sow anything. They just got reaped. And the only thing the copyright hypocrites are "reaping" is a feeling of hypocrisy. Congrats for pointing that out. Your comment is simply myopic. |
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That's too glib. Artists don't have a right to money that people won't spend.
It's not all down to bad actors. Although it's true that musicians got screwed when their distributors switched to a subscription model. Writers got screwed by the Amazon monopsony that crammed down publisher's margins.
Mostly what happened is that media technologies changed, professional creators had less control over production, and the money flowed upstream leaving them with a smaller niche.
All of their output used to be gatekept by media companies who had a lock on publishing. The internet reduced distribution costs to zero. Suddenly anybody could reach an audience.
Now generative AI has dropped the cost of content creation to the basement. It's so much easier to write a blog post or make an illustration.
That isn't cannibalizing content. It's a new way of making. It takes a lot of the value out of creating those kinds of things. The customer experiences this as a reduction in cost.
These changes happen with every new gadget. Photographers have to compete against everybody with a phone in their pocket. Now they just do weddings.
My grandfather was a portrait painter in the 1940s, a profession that was already moribund from the proliferation of photography studios. He gave up and became an insurance salesman.
Maybe he got screwed. The photography studios are all gone too. Because anybody can make a portrait using the phone in their pocket. At zero cost.