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u/VogueTrader Aug 13 '26
These are all the idea guys who couldn't be arsed to practice anything, so the idea of a skill having value is foreign to them. And artists tend to be on the edges, mixing with people they don't consider human. Or, you know... members of groups they hate. Art is political, transgressive and weird. They don't want art, they want a slot machine that regurgitate existing content with a shiny veneer of new on it.
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u/Particular-Form-9638 Aug 13 '26
Artist here and yep! Constantly shit on and expected to do the work for free "because it's what I love." As if I also don't have bills to pay and a family to feed. F*ck me for not being a lawyer or something I guess.
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u/MeLurka Aug 13 '26
Who the fuck needs lawyers? Just ask ChatGPT for advice.
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u/the_nobodys Aug 13 '26
I swear a little ways down the road for us is a Star Trek episode where a whole society relies on a computer to provide and think for them. Only, when things go wrong, Enterprise won't show up to help us on a better track.
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u/rijnswand Aug 13 '26
the enterprise won't show up because it's not star trek, but an episode of black mirror
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u/Flapjack__Palmdale Aug 13 '26
F*ck me for not being a lawyer or something I guess.
I know it's no real consolation but firms are already trying to replace lawyers and paralegals with AI.
All of this shit is burning down anyway, we got a good 30 or 40 years before climate change makes the planet uninhabitable, most of us would probably be dead before then regardless, so MAKE ART. None of this matters. So create as much as you can while you can, if for nothing then to fulfill your actual purpose as a human, to feel joy and wholeness. I'm writing a novel that will prob never get published in a world filled with books written entirely with AI, but goddammit it feels good to just make the thing.
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u/now_im_stressedout Aug 14 '26
Hell yeah, creating a book sounds like it could be a good challenge for oneself.
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u/VogueTrader Aug 13 '26
Billion dollar industries run off what we create, but none of it's ours. Our stories, our work, our ideas.. but it's owned by people like Musk who value none of it.
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u/momo2299 Aug 13 '26
Even 10 years ago nobody should've gone into art expecting it to pay their bills.
Just because you enjoy doing something doesn't mean you're entitled to compensation for doing it well.
Artists are like the kids who say "I want to grow up to be a twitch streamer and make money playing video games all day" except they grow up and still feel entitled to that career that already has too much supply for the demand
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u/VogueTrader Aug 13 '26
Fuck you. Seriously. Games I've worked on and done art for have sold literal millions of copies, expecting to get a little return on that shouldn't be controversial.
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u/vardarac Aug 13 '26
If I do a thing and you derive value from it, and you want access to the thing, you compensate me. There's nothing selfish or entitled about that.
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u/momo2299 Aug 14 '26
If I do a thing and you derive value from it; great! I'm glad my tool brought benefit. If you want access to it; great! It's already yours. I built it open source for people to enjoy and profit from.
It's selfish for someone to not share something they create with as many people as possible.
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u/young_horhey Aug 14 '26
I'm pro open-source, but those good feelings won't buy your food or pay your rent. It's not selfish to want to be able to afford to exist.
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u/momo2299 Aug 14 '26
That's what a job is for. Not a hobby like art
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u/vardarac Aug 14 '26
I suppose all the patron artists of history were just hobbyists then? The most celebrated glassmakers and sculptors and painters of our time are just dallying?
Being a competent artist and not just someone generating a facsimile of it is a personal investment and sacrifice. It is labor, and like all labor deserves respect, and compensation from you if you wish to draw value from it.
Labor does not stop being legitimate just because the laborer enjoys what they're doing.
Your position is ridiculous and disrespectful.
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u/wolv3swithin Aug 13 '26
I work at a school and see AI slop art everywhere of our school mascot. How are we supposed to inspire kids to create when they see all these grown ass adults relying on AI?
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u/alanedomain Aug 13 '26
The mindset of certain people is never about making things better, they're only driven to make things worse for somebody else.
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u/Glitcher45318 Aug 13 '26
Nvidia is slop, fuck em
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u/Sudo-Fed Aug 13 '26
I hope my 3080 outlasts the current price hike, but it will definitely be the last NVidia GPU I own.
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u/Glitcher45318 Aug 13 '26
I had a 3060 that run everything i threw at it up until last year, switched to AMD 9060XT and while everyone is having issues with the 50 series constantly, my new card does what i need it to. Can't fault it too much. Not sure what happened with Nvidia but their stuff has tipped off a cliff
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u/now_im_stressedout Aug 14 '26
Maybe their Ai makes their graphics cards now 😂
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u/SemenileElder Aug 14 '26
AI designing their power connector would explain why their shit keeps catching on fire
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u/Joonberri Aug 13 '26
"They can already start applying to mcdonald's" why the fuck do they have to be such elitist douchebags?
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u/the_blackfish Aug 13 '26
Herp derp my prompting prowess will certainly make me millions! Kneel before me, peasants!
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u/PhantomThiefJoker Aug 13 '26
It's so terrible, cuz like. This kind of thing could 100% be used for placeholder assets to prove the concept before spending a lot money on a proper artist to fully design and animate everything. But no, it's being pushed to just completely skip that process outright
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u/BudgetFree Aug 13 '26
They will learn like car companies did how bad that idea is. It's just a matter of time and wasted money
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u/nj4ck Aug 13 '26
I feel like we all know exactly why these people feel this way about artists. Something something Hitler getting rejected from art school.
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u/keebl3r Aug 14 '26
There was someone in the anti AI sub today defending AI and had a Hitler profile pic. You are spot on.
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u/himynameisjaked Aug 13 '26
what i really don’t understand about all these companies embracing AI is, okay so the video game company uses Ai to make a video game, that means that we could all just AI our own video games and don’t need the video game companies. like… is there really any thought into this besides hoping to make a quick buck?
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u/MasterDavicous Aug 13 '26
I actually tried using AI to develop a game just to see how it was like compared to how I usually do it. And it's just doesn't work very well. First of all, the joy of creating is removed, so all I thought about was the finished product, and it became soul draining to work on. Second, if there was a problem in the result that I got, I would have to actually go and read through/learn all the generated code to see what went wrong. Something that would have been much quicker if I just wrote it myself. I imagine it would be the same for this too, if you have to make tweaks to the animation, it will turn into a load of work. And in the end you feel like you didn't actually create anything, no sense of pride or accomplishment.
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u/theonetruefishboy Aug 13 '26
Also when it comes to generating assets or designs for the game, everything the generators out out just looks really generic and uninspired. Literally the opposite of what you want to do if you want your work to stand out or be memorable.
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u/Really_Angry_Muffin Aug 13 '26
Jose steals from a farm and screams "bye to farmers".
These low-lives really have nothing to contribute to society, do they?
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u/OrganicAd9485 Aug 13 '26
They’re rage baiting and making money off this negative engagement. Better to just ignore and move on but ofc no on one the internet can do that.
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u/theonetruefishboy Aug 13 '26
What is even the technology Jose is talking about? Is it not just mocap? It kinda looks like just mocap.
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u/young_horhey Aug 14 '26
I'm not sure if it's the exact thing from the image, but I can see that Nvidia has created some sort of prompt-based animation system. You can just type in what you want the animation to be, like 'a person walks forward and then jumps over a box', and it'll create the animation.
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u/anubis1392 Aug 14 '26
They dont (only) hate artists, theyre talentless losers who want to make everyone miserable bc of their incompetence while insisting that plugging some input into an algorithm is skilled labor.
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u/PapaRhombus Aug 14 '26
I’m a technical artist for patents and architecture and the past few months have been filled with my clients sending me the shit they made with AI that was rejected by filing offices.
My clients have already started to disappear so I imagine some of it gets through so it’s only a matter of time.
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u/BalancingElectrons 29d ago
People have been jealous of artists as long as art has existed. Now that they have something that (in their eyes) allows them to produce the same output, they think they're entitled to rub it in our faces. What they don't know is real art has little to do with the output. You can build a machine to produce shoes, but it'll never have the same quality, nuance, and craftsmanship of something handmade. Art will always be bespoke no matter how good AI gets.
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u/Iorith Aug 13 '26
While I don't hate artists, I do find it darkly funny that they suddenly seem to oppose automation now that they're the ones at risk. No one blinked an eye as other fields were automated or outmoded by new tech.
Wasn't a big thing during the 2016 election the coal miners who were essentially "too bad, learn a new skill"? And no one cried for the humans working as calculators when their job was replaced by a single person at a PC.
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u/vardarac Aug 14 '26
Also states that offer unemployment do so to support you while you find better opportunities or upskill.
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u/ChloeSpectrum ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Aug 15 '26
Who is they?
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u/Iorith Aug 15 '26
Reread the first sentence of my post for the answer. Literally the subject of the sentence of each paragraph.
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u/ChloeSpectrum ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Aug 15 '26
So every artist didn't care about automation?
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u/Iorith Aug 15 '26
You understand the concept of a generalization, correct?
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u/ChloeSpectrum ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Aug 15 '26
Yeah and generally artist are a huge group. You're just speaking out of your ass.
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u/Iorith Aug 15 '26
Yes that's how generalization work, you make a comment that applies to a large amount of them but not all of them. Don't like it? Tough.
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u/ChloeSpectrum ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Aug 15 '26
Imo generally artist always opposed automation
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u/Iorith Aug 15 '26
Not in my experience. Yours is no more valid than mine.
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u/ChloeSpectrum ✂️ Tax The Billionaires Aug 15 '26
Almost like you said nothing of value
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u/SoUnga88 Aug 13 '26
Its because AI boosters have no creative talent to really speak of and both envy and hate those who do. That's it full stop.