Oh shit! My patreon’s on there. It’s real old stuff though. Not sure if I should be relieved or sad that they seemed to have given up on archiving it years ago.
I tell terrible jokes.
Oh shit! My patreon’s on there. It’s real old stuff though. Not sure if I should be relieved or sad that they seemed to have given up on archiving it years ago.
Yeah, a part of his trip was probably spent looking at housing in his price range in Florida.
It amazes me how we will literally call out liberal behaviour before it happens, and yet they just repeat exactly what we said they would. It’s like they have 0 self-awareness and are just capable of spouting the same half dozen thought terminating cliches over and over again.
Western communists have this weird obsession with purity. You must be the Perfect Communist at all times, or else you aren’t a real communist. Org work is still “work” and we can get burnt out, or not have the energy, or have other things going on in our lives.
We all have different limits and struggles. Someone failing to understand the most basic core concept of community outreach is the one failing to be a “real life communist” not someone who needs a break. You’re not the PLA on the Long March, you can take time to deal with your own mental and physical health.
That’s what AI replaced. They don’t need to pay a contractor 0.0012 cents per page if they can get an AI to do it for free!
Was it a jab? It seemed like it could’ve been comparing them favourably to the DPRK, knowing it would rile up the Kibbutz spokesperson.
Of course they have! Just look at how the election is shaping up! Incredibly unpopular candidates and policies! Not to mention all the corruption in the system! As we all know, America was a perfect paradise before Putin started interfering in US elections, which turned the candidates into unlikable corrupt ghouls!
Amazon marketplace is already like 80% AI written books by volume.
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They always sooner or later let slip that they think about this conflict the same way a Brit did about the Zulu wars a century and a half ago. It’s always “civilisation vs the savages” to them.
Damn, glad I missed that thread. I’ve been self-isolating this whole time, it sucks not seeing the people I care about as frequently as I want to, but the alternative is seeing them sick, or devastated because their friends or family have died. I understand self-isolation isn’t an option for a lot of people (I am lucky enough to work from home) but that kind of indifferent defeatist attitude is troubling. Western governments declared covid “over” and that was that apparently. Covid wasn’t even “that” deadly. Another plague could legitimately wipe out humanity if we have a similar response to it as we did to covid.
And what will be the western response? Blace your pets!
Will it be: “They had to do well or else they’d be executed (The classic!)”
“They were using drugs!”
“Women’s soccer doesn’t matter anyway!”
or will they go especially vile and insinuate that these players are all trans and spread transphobic hysteria?
A zoo that just had cute puppies that you could play with would still be worth going to, even if they didn’t have pandas. Really a missed opportunity here.
I wonder if he’s been a victim of anti-Chinese racism? I doubt the average yank would care enough to notice if the guy they’re hurling slurs at is Chinese or Japanese. And he’s probably old enough to remember the last wave of anti-Japanese racism in the 80s and 90s.
Not true! Most people will inherit large amounts of debt!
Art-luddites (if such a thing is even possible now) would actually be a good thing - they could threaten “machinary” to gain leverage for workers at large.
At the risk of fedposting, if I ended up homeless and with nothing left to lose thanks to AI art, I probably would find some way to threaten the machinery that makes it happen.
You do raise a good point though. I might look into forming solidarity with other artists and maybe forming/joining some kind of union and push for education. The call for IP law to protect artists isn’t a petty bourgeois action, it’s one done because artists aren’t educated on the other tools they could be using to ensure their livelihoods.
“Undecided” in situations like this just means “temporarily embarrassed fascist.”
They really do just say the quiet part out loud sooner or later, don’t they? Yet another “moral” conflict that just turned out to be the US destroying a nation for profit. If only some group of people had been saying this the whole time.
Interesting article, I had no idea my own opinions were functionally art-luddite in nature. I never really made that connection. I don’t think the writer of this piece fully grasps the frustration a lot of artists (myself included) have with AI art though. It isn’t simply a case of “they took our jerbs!” but a case of cheapening the entire creative field to yet another treat printer. This author seems to think that artists are being condescending when they say that there’s more value in random scribbles rather than AI art. It isn’t. It’s an improvement of a skill, there’s a sense of satisfaction that cannot be obtained by simply typing in a prompt, a real genuine sense of improvement is one of the best ways to survive in our increasingly isolated and alienated world. And for a lot of artists, myself included, being an artist under capitalism sucks sure, but making it into a profit generating endeavour is the only real way to devote a significant amount of time to something like this.
Before I was a professional artist, I would work shitty jobs same as everyone else and I had daily thoughts of just dying. It was agony wanting to do more, anything more, and not having the physical or emotional energy after work to do it. If I had to go back to that, or ended up unemployed and homeless, I don’t think I’d survive. Maybe that makes me weak or a labour aristocrat or whatever this author wants to call me, but acting like people’s very real fear for their livehoods is just petty bourgeois reaction strikes me as very callous.
I think this author mistakes desperation for some kind of exceptionalism, and treats artists as a monolith who are all in favour of IP laws, instead of actively trying to assess the complex issues artists have with this new technology. They rightfully assess that the main reaction is due to a potential loss of livelihood, but they act as if artists are all wealthy petty-bourgeoise tyrants losing their small businesses, or hollywood types just waiting for their chance to make it big. They are talking about two very different issues here: Art under capital and workers losing their livelihood and ability to survive using their skillset, but constantly conflate the two. It’s frustrating, because I agree with their overall point with regards to art under capital, but I’m so sick of this vague gesturing in the direction of “we should make a future where this problem doesn’t happen.” Like yeah, that’s why we’re here, on this website for leftists, we want to fix the problems caused by capitalism. But imagining some future where people can just draw art freely for fun and don’t need to tie any material value to it, well that doesn’t help me keep a roof over my head.
Or maybe I just completely misunderstood the article because as an artist, I’m clearly incapable of having a correct opinion about this.
I really don’t get these guys. They’re just so incompetent. Like the very least they could do is avoid anything identifiable like a license plate, you’d think they’d steal a car or something and set up a safehouse to flee to. Or if they want the full matyrdom thing, go in guns blazing with the biggest, nastiest weapon they can get their hands on, or even full on killdozer or something.
They say he is a “threat to American democracy” or whatever, but even attempted assassins don’t seem to seriously believe that, let alone the libs who will #thoughtsandprayers all over this.
Yeah, seems like they gave up on supporting me/archiving my work around the time I was having a lot of mental health issues a couple of years ago. Makes sense I guess. A lot of people stopped supporting me back then.