• tuxed@sh.itjust.works
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    Everyone may deserve a living wage, but if im awful at art there are probably more useful things I could be doing for the betterment of all.

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      Probably, but then again, if you enjoy making art then just do it. It doesn’t have to be beautiful, it doesn’t even have to be good, as long as it makes you happy it is worth doing.

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        That’s not the point: paying people for any random thing they decide to do doesn’t make sense and doesn’t work.

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          Then don’t pay for it. But if you are going to pay for it, isn’t it better to pay a real person that worked to create something over a corporation that automated the process?

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            If you want? You’re also free to pay for hand-kneaded bread at a traditional bakery from hand-harvested flour (damn harvesting machines taking the jobs of peasants!) You’re free to only listen to music in concerts rather than rely on cheap and automated reproductions (damn vinyls taking the jobs of bards!)

            I think it’s weird to shame people for going with the cheaper, more efficient, industrial version.
            Some jobs don’t call for art, they call for illustrations, and AI tools are perfectly adequate for that.

            Of course it’s terrible that artists are losing out on illustration jobs, but I don’t see how it is meaningfully different from any other kind of automation taking jobs and why we should shame its users. Artists being undervalued in market economies isn’t a new problem, and shaming users is at best a temporary and leaky band-aid on the situation.

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            And what of the copyright free FOSS solutions? AI is just a tool in the digital artist toolbox, blame the corporations, not the digital artists. The same argument was made about photoshop 25 years ago, did that stop people paying for traditional art?

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            People paying for AI art is a boogyman that is being overplayed to hide the fact that the vast majority of AI art is made by the person who wants it for themselves. This is a new artform that there are new artists whom enjoy using it

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                Lmao ok there grandpa. Enjoy being left behind while you create a version of reality that doesnt exist in order to explain why

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                It sounds more like you’re trying to convince people (and maybe yourself) of that than a statement of fact you’re sure about.

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                I mean, I knew quite a few that would rip art from Pinterest for their dnd characters and games sooooo. I was the friend who by FAR commissioned artists the most for his characters, It’s probably close to 1k now I’ve spent on commissions overall. These people just hear “BUT ITS THEFT” and turn their brain off past that

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        Until we don’t have to work to live then no, you can’t just make art because. What is stifling creativity is being trapped in a system that doesn’t allow you to even have health care as a basic right. I don’t make any art most of the time because I cannot live off of that. You’re welcome to buy up things I make at prices high enough to pay my bills but you won’t.

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      You may still be able to better yourself or find a way to make money being mediocre or amateur regardless. But you have to decide to take a chance on yourself.

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      11 months ago

      Well, so much for you people being democrats lol, might as well put on the Klan hood because that’s what they thought too

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        That is a very US centric comment.

        More than 95% of the world are neither republican nor democrat.

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        Damn dude, you should enter the Olympics, that reach was gold medal tier