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  • Because you don’t care about making art, so you choose comfort and financial safety.

    Yeah, I choose to eat, so do you, evidently.

    But my choices on how I earn that bread were more limited than yours, again - evidently.

    Beyond that, I choose not to make assumptions about you or your life like you’ve done with mine.

    Also lol “comfort and financial safety”. No. Not for most people in most of this world. It’s more like survival vs not survival.

    So how does this have nothing to do with privilege? It literally is what privilege is.

    Telling poors to learn art is like telling someone to bet everything on starting a business. It’s a good idea only if you’re rich, because if you fail - and to learn you must fail sometimes - you can try again, but the working class doesn’t get the luxury of second chances.

    You’re talking about outsourcing art, but then complain about who actually make art.

    No, I’m talking about generating art from a prompt, I have no issues with people who make art obviously, as long as they don’t have an issue with those who lack the resources to develop the skills and instead use AI to put their ideas into action or polish existing ones.

    If you’d like to change my mind, show me a few professionally successful present-day working class artists.

    This means they:

    1. Make most of their income from their work
    2. Most active period this or past decade and they are no older than 40.
    3. Working class background, so no artists in family at all, no industry connections they didn’t make themselves, no nepotism etc.

    Also lol, of course I care about making art, why else would I be even talking about it, much less pointing out that generative AI accidentally or not - corrects a class injustice?

    If I saw no value in making art, why would I ever consider it an injustice that the working class cannot enjoy it?

    I make music in my spare time whenever I can and have for years, and no I don’t and would never use any generative AI tools for the music itself, nor do I even sample any other music, and I think I’ve even improved at it somewhat despite a lack of basically any education on the subject matter beyond a few guides and YouTube videos on music theory here and there. It’s a highly rewarding hobby.

    Realistically though, that ‘whenever’ is simply not enough time to create anything professional and polished enough for me to sell and for it to appeal to anyone besides myself and whatever loved one is unfortunate enough to be subjected to it.


  • Do you have another retort besides “lol”? Spending the amount of time required to produce professional art when an income isn’t directly guaranteed is a risk most of us can’t take, FYI.

    You still can’t make

    Yeah and why would I need to?

    If I don’t enjoy that particular process nearly enough to learn how to make it good, and I wanted it to be good and I was feeling creative and had an idea for it, I could just get it made for me, free of charge, free of corpo influence or any strings attached. It’s a sweet deal.














  • Goddamn I was reading this expecting to disagree and bitch and moan about the word being overused but it’s 100% justified, that David horseshit Hanson guy is unhinged and cloudflare bankrolling his arch Linux rice is something else.

    Not only is he defending the anti-trans activist Linehan getting arrested (for bullying and harassing an underage girl and accusing the police being “on the payroll of trans activists” (whatever that means) in court), but davis huge hiney here also is full on dog whistling about white replacement on his website, banging on about “Pakistani rape gangs” etc. usually with links to xitter misinfo about the convicted felon Tommy Robinson who was let out of prison not long ago and has been leading the far-right riots.

    Read for yourself, it’s honestly not very exciting, very run of the mill typical rightoid shit https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64.

    I also do wonder what the fuck is the point of having le unix porn riced setup just to have half the screen be taken up by a web browser with grok in it (lol)


  • Nah, that shit woulda never helped me and I wouldn’t even know where to start and I never have, we had laptops open on lectures so I just wrote small programs about whatever concepts the lecturer talked about but to sit in the same place for 2 hours it was borderline impossible.

    After entering the workforce it was just pure torture sitting in the office waiting to die 8 hours a day, I went through like a full character arc from arrogant to humble to desperate to hate at others to hate at self to finally worldly and gradually radicalized against the onslaught of alienation.

    I came back for my masters in 2020 and it was fairly sweet all online.

    Thankfully now many years later I WFH. Uni is far behind. Haven’t handwritten anything in years, I’m almost curious to try it