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Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Modern society was partly possible due to the printing press. Yep, it sucks that people had their jobs replaced and if it were happening now I’d be fighting for them to be looked after, as they should.

Generating art is not some amazing world changing technology, it’s trash. We do not need to replace artists, and frankly we just fucking shouldn’t.

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Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If it’s so trash it won’t replace them right? So there’s no issue.

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- PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Tell that to Disney, for example. It wouldn’t replace artists in a world that cared about artistic quality… we don’t live in that world.
  
  For capitalists, easily generated shit is good enough.
  
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  - Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s down to the audience. If people won’t accept it then it won’t be done. If people do they why not.
    
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zazo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Any artist who stops being an artist because someone else can put words into a computer and get a big tiddy goth gf pic out, wasn’t really that interested in making art in the first place.

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- Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My guy, they stop being an artist because someone stole all their work and fired them for it
  
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  - zazo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My dude, my grandfather got fired after the collapse of the soviet economy because “artist” wasn’t a productive enough job to be kept around, but he still made art for 20 years after without getting paid because his purpose in life was to create art, not to sell it.
    
    And sure the theft argument would be valid, but that’s a strawman, because Adobe have already trained their own image gen model on fully licensed images and real life artists are already paying money to use it, so they must see the value in it.
    
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    Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You just described the problem back to me, artists should get paid for creating, I don’t think being paid for something you love takes away from it, but that’s an opinion and I understand people have their own. I think that’s just an extension of the beauty of art (having our own opinions about it). Profit motives are the exact problem here, not a justification to make it worse.
    
    If Adobe is doing that, then that’s awesome. If they’re making tools to replace artists, instead of tools to help them, significantly less awesome.
    
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