The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talent—the ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their lives—are the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only “problem” execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.
The only slack I’ll give here is if you use generated images lightly as an inspiration reference point. Even then, the morality of how these AI tools came to be is questionable since they essentially plagiarized art from others. My theory is that it will also make our brains lazier similar to how map software does for navigation. Navigation makes sense though because it’s a mundane thing. Replacing your entire creative team with it though? Make sure to put some money aside for when your venture inevitably folds.
AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed.
The problem has existed and it is one of the core contradictions inherent to capitalism: that the wealthy see our wages as their lost profits while in reality their profits are unpaid surplus value of our labor… There isn’t a path forward with a capitalist system because the capital class will never stop trying to commodify every aspect of society and they will never stop trying to replace us with machines or cheap foreign slave labor
The trend with AI seems to be that the folks with zero talent—the ones that have never poured themselves into a single cathartic creative, discovery, or research process once in their lives—are the ones pushing AI the hardest. AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed. The only “problem” execs see is that they have too big of a headcount and need to reduce that ASAP so that they can pump out more soulless slop.
The only slack I’ll give here is if you use generated images lightly as an inspiration reference point. Even then, the morality of how these AI tools came to be is questionable since they essentially plagiarized art from others. My theory is that it will also make our brains lazier similar to how map software does for navigation. Navigation makes sense though because it’s a mundane thing. Replacing your entire creative team with it though? Make sure to put some money aside for when your venture inevitably folds.
The problem has existed and it is one of the core contradictions inherent to capitalism: that the wealthy see our wages as their lost profits while in reality their profits are unpaid surplus value of our labor… There isn’t a path forward with a capitalist system because the capital class will never stop trying to commodify every aspect of society and they will never stop trying to replace us with machines or cheap foreign slave labor