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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

“But I still want to get paid for it.”

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    39 hours ago

    the vast majority of artists don’t make money doing art and never will if they don’t work at a company

    Are you so certain of that?

    I don’t understand this take

    You may be more correct there than you realize, especially regarding my first question there.

    maybe it’s because I’m so into fanfiction but like there will always be millions of people making more art than you know what to do with

    Yeah fanfiction is cool and good but there really are people, from paid-by-commission artists to graphic designers to writers under publisher contracts that are all affected by treat printers. Their material conditions have worsened and precarity has increased. “You got yours,” so to speak, but that doesn’t mean you speak for everyone else there. Losing a job sucks; that shouldn’t be hard for you to understand.

    • combat_doomerism [he/him]
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      29 hours ago

      pretty certain the majority of people doing art do not make a living off it yes. I’m not saying you can’t have sympathy with someone losing their job because of AI but like complain about the owners like normal don’t defend IP

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        pretty certain the majority of people doing art do not make a living off it

        Even if that were so (and that really depends on how wide your definitions are), does that invalidate the existence of everyone that does try to make a living with their art?

        but like complain about the owners like normal don’t defend IP

        Ideologically absolute anti-IP stances with no considerations for ordinary artists that aren’t IP-hoarding corporations aren’t likely to win over those artists or the people that care about them. You complained about a relative lack of support for your positions here. I am explaining why that is so.

        • combat_doomerism [he/him]
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          29 hours ago

          I’m not sure what you mean by “invalidate the existence”, I understand their plight and I’m sorry the tech will end up causing a lot of poor people pain but I think again that any complaints on a communist website that defend IP should be pushed back on. My point is that such arguments are very short sighted, in trying to defend small artists in this way they entrench IP which will be forever more helpful to IP-hoarding corporations

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            39 hours ago

            but I think again that any complaints on a communist website that defend IP should be pushed back on

            Again. It isn’t just about IP. As @Nakoichi@hexbear.net has already pointed out, people’s labor has been stolen and continues to be stolen. If you can’t accept that or acknowledge that, you’re floating on a cloud of liberal privilege and it’s up to you to come down from it.

              • yoink [she/her]
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                28 hours ago

                you say in your other comment that people are defending IP hoarding by defending people on the small scale, but right here you do the exact same thing in reverse - using the morality of piracy on the large scale in order to win an argument grounded in the small scale

                people are saying ‘small artists that eke by are getting screwed out of compensation for their labour’ and you’re chiming in with ‘why are you trying to stop me from pirating from Marvel?’

                you’re either purposefully being obtuse about this, or you genuinely are so focused on validating your own piracy that you’re talking right past the conversation entirely

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                38 hours ago

                Again, you’re ignoring the material reality of currently existing (and recently forcibly retired) artists who aren’t “IP” hogs and whose economic precarity has worsened because of treat printers as they are being applied, now, in our current material reality. If you think the only meaningful way to steal art is to physically carry off a painting, I really don’t have anything else to say to you.

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                    I doubt it’d convince me, if it’s just more of the same. Your ideological fundamentalism dismisses and outright ignores too many working class people and I doubt that a paragraph more of that would help.

                  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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                    36 minutes ago

                    You do realize I am a mod of this conm and I have to. You could just stop posting here and then I wouldn’t have to deal with your shit.

                    U right though I’m being lazy by not just banning your annoying ass