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[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

not going to be successful in this new world without using it

The hubris is almost impressive in itself. There's not a single technology in human history that has managed to kill every art form not using it. Digital art didn't do it, photography, pencil, movable type printing, nib pens, oil paints, scraffito, probably not even the invention of currency did it. He thinks autoplag of all things will?

[-] veganes_hack@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

i suppose when this guy speaks of artists, he means people making art as their primary source of income. not to say that those people aren't artists as valid as any others. but he's saying if you don't use ai to push out stuff ever faster, you won't make it. fuck taking your time to get inspired and have it mean something, just give us the soulless garbage to sell our products already.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 1 month ago

I somewhat assumed so based on the usual corporate ghoul definition of "successful". That's why I included currency as something without which artists have managed to make a living since its invention. That particular example may be arguable, but being a successful artist is not and will not be predicated entirely on how fast one can crank out "content". How many movies do the wealthiest directors put out per year?

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