#riling up people’s anxieties about automation and the erasure of a niche artist community | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chewwytwee · 7 months ago

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The thing about AI is like, what if someone just doesn’t wanna be an artist? What if someone doesn’t wanna sink a bunch of time into learning how to draw?

The whole argument surrounding art’s accessibility kinda misses the point by assuming everyone wants to dedicate the time to learning how to draw and the only thing preventing them from drawing is their own sloth and entitlement. If you wanna criticize AI tools find a better point than reactionary pearl clutching about the sanctity of human art and the inherent importance of ‘effort’. Y’all sound like fucking Ben Shapiro when you decry anyone who would dare to create art in an easy way, they’re ruining our great ‘culture’ and are degrading ‘human nature’ by breaking from tradition (which is inherently good and should never be challenged) by using new ~Technology~ (which is inherently bad and needs to be STOPPED at ALL COSTS).

#.txt #I just get so tired of this shit cuz you all sound like boomer musicians who do nothing but whine about midi or digital playback #‘hurr durr every audience is stupid and brain dead for not being irate that the pit orchestra is smaller than it used to be’#‘hurr durr no one wants to WORK anymore and LEARN a new instrument they just wanna type at a computer unlike REAL musicians who WORK’#and like I GET the fear that’s driving these opinions #like the internet just got over NFTs and crypto and so another new wave of technology that tech bros are hyping up seems scary #but let’s maybe use our brains for two seconds and determine what we actually dislike about AI #and then further decide if those are valid reasons #there are a million good reasons to not like AI but I’ll be damned if I ever ass a single person on tumblr doing anything but r #riling up people’s anxieties about automation and the erasure of a niche artist community

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