my main two opinions about AI art are as follows:
- i am deeply skeptical of anybody who suggests that AI art is bad because it's "inhuman" or "soulless" or whatever abstract spiritual qualities you want to assign to human-generated art. i'm aware that people who say things like this have good reason to see AI as a threat to their own livelihoods. still, i tend to believe that allowing this sort of sloppiness in principle and rhetoric generally leads to worse outcomes in the long run. i have already seen people dismiss and dehumanize physically disabled artists doing their damnedest to use ethical AI art because their only other option is to stop being creative entirely; i don't doubt that this sort of thing can get worse.
- the luddites lost. clothing is largely made in factories today, and bespoke handmade fashion is now a luxury good. "total social rejection" isn't a strategy that anybody has the numbers for, never mind the question of whether it would even work
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