Businesses that rely on creatives should probably avoid angering them.

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    10 months ago

    It is, this is the equivalent of protesting the printing press. It would be most useful to find a way to transition gracefully, but most people are still in the denial stage.

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      10 months ago

      The printing press didn’t change the text inside the books and made books widely available to the public. Art is already everywhere, we don’t need AI to have enough of it and it fundamentally replaces what is actually good about art.

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        10 months ago

        AI is making it possible for everybody to create art (for certain definitions of art). That’s the same thing the printing press made possible, it lowered the barriers to anybody creating their own publication. The parallels are extremely numerous and striking, for those without a preexisting bias.

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          10 months ago

          Prompting a machine isn’t creating art any more than commissioning an artist is creating art. Writers still had to actually write books to print, AI removes everything between the initial idea and the final product.

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            10 months ago

            There’s a thousand Benedictine monks who said the same thing at the thought of an unadorned, unillustrated stack of paper stapled together.

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              10 months ago

              You’d have a point if the printing presses only put out randomized, meaningless chicken scratch, but instead you’re conflating how art is presented with the art itself.