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This, unironically! If we didn't set some standards, then even poor people could do it! ๐ง
Anyone can pick up a paper and pencil. Art books are widely available in libraries, or for piracy online. Some communities have communal art events or clubs. Digital art and graphic design programs are all cracked online or open source. Hundreds of thousands of Youtube and Bilibili videos and tutorials. Your own imagination is also perfectly free to use. Famously no poor people have ever drawn or created any form of art, ever, in the history of humanity.
How is this a class issue? Are you saying poor people aren't able to pick up a pencil and doodle for 15 minutes if they wanted to, or open photoshop or blender? Hiding behind the poor as an excuse is an insane defense for a corporate slop machine.
Instead of a poor trying to come up with a way to express themselves, they should instead type their thoughts into the capitalist machine and alienate themselves further from their humanity and self. No need to improve, no need to think, no need to interact with the world around you.
One of my colleagues teaches Art and English as a foreign language. She's not even poor because we're in a country that doesn't shit on teachers, but even she uses generative AI to illustrate her slides and create grammar posters. She's time-poor, and she's not giving the school any labour for free making posters in her free time when she's got a family life to live. Nobody cares if the capybara character on the poster has 5 or 4 toes. It's not a maths poster. The students think it's funny and we move on. No artists are losing work, because even without the AI option there's no budget for decorating lesson slides or making posters to take home. Unless anyone wants to work for exposure. Can pay plenty in exposure.
And on the flip side, neither of us is using AI to replace artists in situations where we use artists. She still does her own personal art, and I just wrapped a Christmas gift for a valued friend that I paid another artist friend to create. Took her seven months because she's also pressed for time, and the chats we've had over the creative process are one of my fondest memories for this year.
Is this a regional thing? Is it different in your country, wherever you are? I've got musician friends using AI to help make music videos and artist friends using AI to make music for their comic strip posts, and nobody's losing any sleep over it. There's some other variable and it's not the AIs.
Please try and employ the dialectic. As always, lets work together on finding an avenue for progress.
While poor people might be gifted in creativity, they dont need to able to draw. using ai slop machine may even be able to help a person without arms to express themselves in pictures which only those learning to draw with their mouths or feet were able to before.
ML still firmly anti ai imo need to get their progress machine checked and reread left wing communism as the denial of a tool for the working class out of ideological reasons is ultraleftist insanity.
Its of course also reactionary, which makes it no better.
This does still not mean that we tell everyone to use chatgpt for therapy but there is room for nuance between the two.
The exception does not make the rule. How may people with no arms do you think there are relative to the population of the globe? They also don't need to draw if they don't want to. They can write, using voice to text, they can use a specialized mouse to create 3D animations, they can sing, they can express themselves beyond a slop machine. Hiding behind the poor and amputees is disgusting.
I believe AI is perfectly dialectical in regard to medical research for example, but not in automating self-expression. All that will do is lead to the "sameification" of human culture.
You're being highly reactionary and are personally attacking a comrade. Do better.
I am not personally attacking anyone nor being reactionary. What was the personal attack? Claiming that opportunistically using amputees as shields is disingenuous as a defense?