Yeah it’s a tool as the nuclear bomb is.
Yea crazy, a sect of useful idiots arguing something will be the destruction of the entire universe because they believed the propaganda of people who stand to financially gain from it? Interesting.
How the hell are you going to get attention as a human artist, animator, musician, actor, etc when the entire internet and streaming services are filled to the brim with quickly churned out indistinguishable AI content?
By going outside and not spending their entire lives online. Art galleries exist, local shows do too, film shows exist, local pubs will often let you perform music if you're not dogshit or you can just go sit on the street and perform. In fact especially if you're any form of performer then doing those small gigs is incredibly important, jumping in as a headliner at a massive concert is not a good idea if you have never sung live before, regardless of how many meaningless updooties you have online. Believe it or not but art has existed for at least a couple decades before the internet has. Even now, what some six months after image gen has been as good as even the highest quality artists, people are still posting on twitter and people are still making new accounts that get a new following. Around 90% of the tweets I see on twitter are text only posts that I can't even fucking read, there's plenty of room in my feed and probably everyone else's to shove more art posts in, be they AI or not.
Especially since if you wanna blow up you have to adhere to what the algorithm wants.
If an artist arts on a website but no one is subscribed to see it, did they art at all?
Fun fact but you know people like Michelangelo, Van Gogh, fucking Da Vinci and Shakespeare, even newer artists like that flood of amazing musicians from the 20th century; you know like those obscure guys called the Beatles? Absolutely not fucking one of them had even one single youtube subscriber. The Iliad and Odyssey are two of the most famous pieces of writing in existence and the person who made them couldn't even fucking write let alone tell people to smash like and hit the bell icon on the final page.
Ever since the dawn of AI people have been saying the same shit. If art is an expression of humanity then why does it need money? Since when did my brain's ability to express itself have a fucking coin slot I need to put coins in to make it work like a kids novelty ride outside a supermarket? Needs money to be a career, yes. But is a hobby artist not still an artist? Art has existed since before the concept of an economy much less actual currency, why did those artists do their art if they didn't have a financial reason to do so? Everyone wants to complain that AI is stealing their jobs, yet I'm a fucking horrible racist when I say that maybe our government giving major tax reductions to a group of people that famously use more taxpayer resources than they contribute is a bad idea and that maybe importing a new class of borderline slave labour to undercut actual wages and price native people out of the lives they were promised is not a good thing and much worse for the average man than AI stealing your job is? And I'm a schizophrenic conspiracy theorist when I say that the entire argument of AI stealing jobs is a smokescreen to allow government and corporations quietly push through new technologies to spy on you and absolutely fucking decimate your privacy and autonomy while you're too busy arguing about the poor little twitter artists, despite the fact that my authoritarian censorious government is already heavily pushing AI powered facial recognition software for the police to use on anyone they want and will soon be using AI to scan your internet usage? Once again yea, it is just like the atom bomb, used by a malicious group of higherups to create propaganda that useful idiots will spew so they can get what they want.
