As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it’s also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it’s a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?

  • mauveOkra
    51·
    2 years ago

    Artists, and I mean this more broadly than just the visual arts, often dedicate their life to their work. There isn’t necessarily a free time after work because most artists have to cobble together multiple freelance and part-time incomes to scrape by. You missed their broader point that programmers are speaking as an authority on a field they know very little about.

    • Aria
      51·
      2 years ago

      Rubbish. Nothing Gopnik Award said is speaking authoritatively to the experience of artists, just to their own experience.

    • belo@lemmy.ml
      52·
      2 years ago

      Thanks, and you’re right - they don’t know. Literally, and I mean quite literally, everyone I know who went into programming or CS has done so for the money and status. Who in their right mind thinks that they are going to get rich being an artist? The only guy I know who isn’t at all interested in CS for the money is studying privacy and other ethical issues at the academic level. I know he’s very passionate about cryptology and math, and has devoted a lot of time to educating a lot of people about what he knows.

      Artists I think are also use to criticism (especially the more they advance). So are educators or anybody that is in front of an audience.

      Programmers and people who are defending AI don’t know what it’s like to have their work criticized and they can’t handle it. It’s because they aren’t artists and will resort to throwing insults or dogpiling instead of actually thinking about the criticism they are recieving.

      • MexicanCCPBot
        52·
        2 years ago

        I’ve been reading this thread and from one communist artist to another, I fully agree with you. I’m on your side. Don’t know wtf is wrong with the other person, they seem to be a materialist reductionist not understanding that we’re trying to improve the human condition, not automate literally everything. It’s sad, but from reading this thread there seems to be a huge dialectical contradiction between artists and programmers in our worldview and goals.

        • belo@lemmy.ml
          52·
          2 years ago

          Thanks friend. It’s very sad to me that people would willingly not think critically about something like this, just because they think it’s “cool” to prompt overly rendered images of space aliens and furry boobs.