Technology

Yeah it sucks for him to have ended up creating works beloved by hundreds of millions and touched and changed lives

he could have made some steaks and shit but oh well

Relatable. I'll never achieve my dreams either.

Ironic since the decrease of human made work (art or software) will decrease the quality or diversity of generative AI itself

Mostly true, but...

Replacing clip art, generic filler from Getty images, and other hand-crafted slop with machine-made slop for things like slideshows, YouTube thumbnails, and other applications where the image isn't meant to convey something actually existing from the primary content, that I think is fine.

Of course it should be based on free software (such as AGPL) and use only freely provided or public domain inputs.

Of course it shouldn't be used to misrepresent its outputs as produced by, authorized, or of people that it is not.

But what we have right now is an another sort of enclosure of the cultural commons, blended with plagerism-by-another-name. If there are already terms for this sort of misappropriation, I can't think of them right now.

"A real labor of love"

Christ. It's like people cosplaying as real artists.

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That will only happen if a society completely is reorganized to get rid of money or if they introduce universal basic income (at a rate that actually allows people to live).

Realistically I can't see either of those things happening.

Reminds me of how millennials and generations onward have learned less and less maintainence skills to the point where most of us can't sow or fix shit if it's broken because we grew up in a consumer culture where you just buy a new one when the old one breaks. The quality of products have decreased too so they break quicker which gives people incentive to buy a new one instead of fixing.

My parents generation hold on to old items and they patch up their clothes and know how to fix shit around the house but they didn't teach me any of that because the culture shifted and it wasn't really needed.

We are not only losing skills and tactile learning and understanding, we are also rapidly torpedoing out planet into a massive trash heap. Which is a bit of a duh, I know, but still.

I for one have noticed the insane decline in the quality of clothes after covid. It is shockingly shitty now and tears faster than ever. Shirts and leggings I bought ten years ago still hold up while similar shirts and leggings from a few years ago already tear or unravel. It is shocking. I guess this is what will eventually happen to art too.

All these job people are just barking up the wrong tree. Oh no my 9-5 is gone instead of oh wow now we collectively have less work load and should focus on resource redistribution.

Uh huh, so your going to grow and hunt your own nutrients then I guess? Build your own shelter?

I guess you could do all that if you had the money to buy the required land for it, but then again if you had that kind of money you didn't need a job in the first place.