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Good message, bad execution IMO. I had to reread to understand it's actually against ai
I thought it was a message about prioritising free time, until I saw the community it is posted in lol.
I guess it depends how many times one has seen this exact "conversation", but I got it by the end of the first speech bubble.
it’s not an uncommon sentiment for poorer non-artists… and this comic is pretty demeaning….
art and music have a long history of being dominated by people who come from money.
yes, you can make art all night and work all day, but working a full day is exhausting, mentally and often physically… not to mention commuting and cooking food and doing all of the other things people normally need to do….
try to take your band on tour without some money… totally possible, but a lot easier if you can just ask mom and dad for a few grand to fund it… and then being able to fall back on your trust fund makes pursuing an art career a lot less risky….
there’s a lot of nuance, and exceptions, but going from poor to successful artist takes a tremendous amount of work and dedication that rich people don’t have to worry about…
on top of all of that, have you ever looked at the prices of art supplies?
a lot of indie musicians and artists have trust funds and some people see that as being unfair and disingenuous….
i guess some idiots are trying to apply that logic as a rationalization of being an “ai artist”… and it doesn’t apply… but the point by itself is a thing
Agreed. That it's some great equalizer is deception, as a tool it exists to widen that class divide.
definitely. i’ve had humans copy my drawings and then claim that they made them and it feels the same as people claiming to be ai artists….
anyone can be an artist… but it’s not easy and privilege definitely helps.
but i’m not an artist because i want to be, it’s because i have to be or id have killed myself by now. literally.
people tell me im lucky, or naturally talented, or they’re jealous… but in most cases, great art comes from suffering. i have skills through thousands of hours of practice… i have vision because my mind is fucked up… because of severe childhood burns and fucked up unresolved issues that i cope with through art… and i’ve never been very privileged (although compared to a lot of people, still privileged).
i don’t mind ai images, and have had fun playing with it myself… i mind people pretending that fucking around with an ai prompt makes them like me… it doesn’t….
it’s like DJ’s that just stack other people’s loops together and call themselves musicians….