Artists aren’t being scammed. They’re being replaced by automated systems. It’s the same thing that happened to weavers and glassblowers. The issue isn’t that their job is being automated. It’s that people replaced by automation aren’t compensated. Blame the game, not the players.
gregorum@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s much closer to having glass blowing artists designs, perfectly replicated in an automated fashion, and at scale. I would argue that it is tantamount to being scammed.
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
In this specific case, it’s more like a bunch of glassblowers were being paid to make designs on behalf of a company. Then they went on strike, and the company decided it would be cheaper to replicate their designs with an automated system than to meet the workers’ demands.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 9 months ago
The strike came after the jobs began to be replaced. They can currently mimic a few glass blown designs, and the strike is aimed at making sure that glass blowers don’t give more ammo to the animators.