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oh no I keep getting sucked into ai art discourse
why do people insist on talking about this stuff as though the companies building these tools aren't getting or trying to get obscenely rich
oh no I keep getting sucked into ai art discourse
I am begging everyone who wants to tell me about photography and what-if scenarios with AI art to google "historical materialism", please, my family is dying
bird discourse on AI art, last thing I promise
thinking more than is necessary about whether people trying to talk about AI art in terms of creativity and drawing inspiration to make something new are also people who violently hated The Last Jedi
bird discourse on AI art
I kind of left behind musing on influence and creativity and attribution after my freshman year of art school, but I realize that most of the people raising these questions are probably encountering them for the first time and think they are Very Interesting. Fine. Just feel like it's weird to talk about AI art stuff independent of like, power and money as though art exists somewhere magically unsullied by both.
bird discourse on AI art
I already muted the guy who prompted this reply over there, but cross posting this because realizing maybe I need to be more direct https://twitter.com/lifewinning/status/1615349937310400515
Freelance artists posting work online as a part of making a living aren't getting billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft to produce work. OpenAI is. None of those billions of dollars are going back to artists, who *will likely have less work bc of these tools.*
are you an #sts or comms scholar who is interested in how money works in the high tech space? are you going to ICA or are you already in Toronto? you should submit to my coincidentally co-located not-an-official-pre-conference workshop on TECH/MONEY! find the CFP and submission form here and please share with folks who might be interested: https://forms.gle/ZgLEk817PWoUHt1V9