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Art is self expression, people have made artworks using their own piss and whatever they find around them, despite the big bourgeois scum delusions there's still a lot they can't control and despite their absolute best they can't quite take all forms of self expression. Can they make it more difficult? They absolutely will and are, no prophetic visions of the future needed, but not take it entirely. On the other end things like digital art and sculpting are gatekept already by high knowledge requirements as well as financial ones, so your nightmare already exists in our world, playing out in a much quieter way and it has been art became a skill under exploitative economic systems. Films recognized are generally those by big media, not people with an iphone on youtube, though there are exceptions to the rule.

AI as run in the west has a huge infrastructure and material cost I don't think will be able to sustain that too long, as materials are needed like rare earth metals that can only be gathered so fast, AI slop is still discernable easily as AI slop, that's not going to change for a min. There's already a huge entry cost to getting into this stuff to begin with, so another example of the dream at play. I also strongly suspect infrastructure is weakening to the point I don't even know how much longer we'll have the internet in its current form, the near future is going to be a shitty ID gated device-locked walled garden of AI slop and ads that goes down every 2s and costs 10 times as much.

I'm anxious about it from a job aspect, one of my jobs is data rating.