Ordering a pizza, not paying and then calling yourself a chef 
It did happen in history, people went on strikes when their business was affected
and you are just proving my point that people don´t care about it and you just said
"it is what it is" to me with your comment and showed me that you don´t care
no coz my issue is what feels like an acceptance and loss of fight. like okay it didn't work out but why not keep at it. to say it didn't work it's never gonna seems dumb or at the least counterproductive. i'd rather keep making art in whatever way i can till i die than just go "ah well this exists now so guess there's no point' coz even prior to ai there's still the whole "oh well there's always someone better than you" and even in those instances i still kept at it out of pure spite and determination to prove that i and the things i care about are worth a damn.
i'm not trying to talk down but i hate the defeatist mindset that keeps cycling around and cant wrap my head around the idea of quitting coz something went wrong. i'm literally already actively in a phase where i once again hate everything i'm making and am constantly questioning if i even wanna keep at it even tho i loathe the idea of being stuck in some other job i hate so even tho i struggle with things like visibility or getting any kind of finance from i art i refuse to just drop it because "other people or a computer can do it better"
maybe its coz so much of the media i consumed growing up insisted on never quitting till all options have genuinely been exhausted and that it aint over till your heart stops beating but i refuse to bend to the mindset of it is what it is coz yeah life sucks but what can i do but keep on pushing and if i can get that concept through at least a few thick skulls than maybe that makes the effort worth a damn
I´ll never give up until I die, I have been making music and drawing since 41 years,
first live concert in 1983 and that was also the year I started drawing.
I always fight my way through but I´m also a realist, there is no banding together
well i guess that just makes me the irritating optimist coz that mindset sounds draining and lonely but if its your path good luck
Writers and actors went on strike just this past year and instead of showing solidarity the public lost their shit because their TV shows got delayed.
At it bloodiest, the labour movement was only fought by the people most affected. Everyone else thought the protestors were being inappropriate.
The American state of Oklahoma passed a law that protects anyone who drives down a protestor blocking traffic.
Those are just a few examples. It'd be great if the public would show some sort of solidarity for their peers. Even the truth that labour's win is also their win does not sway them. The public simply can't be trusted to show good judgement, and that means their politicians are even more selfish, cruel and stupid.
It's sensible to see all fights for societal improvement as small scale and largely futile because history shows this to be the norm.
What is the optimistic message?
My optimistic message is that I have found my niche and that kids still love to draw with pencil
and paper and that I found a way to keep on making music. I achieved that through my hard
work and made the impossible possible. There was no banding toether involved
Pff it's like with the US elections. The average person would rather believe the news at face value than dig deeper and do research, or directly watch the full campaign speeches from both parties. Studying is too poopy!
Admittedly I don't care as much about Gen AI as the mass majority of artists, but it's because I'm using optimistic nihilism for survival. If I weren't bogged down by two jobs and 4 hours of sleep during the work week, housework, pet care, I probably would have time to care more, since my stuff can get stolen too. (Probably has, wouldn't be surprised.) Still, I do understand the fears and hatred everyone else has, especially artists whose livelihoods have been threatened thanks to AI.
youre talking to a black woman who lives in the southern us if you think i'm ignorant to reality by way of blind optimism then thats quite the assumption to make. i'm not ignorant to any of these realities or the consistent lynchings the recent murders or anything else going on. i'm actively following the animation guilds ongoing strike loosely kept track of what was going on with actors and have been painfully aware of the realities of my own personal struggles but the simple fact is despite it all i'd like to try and hold onto some kind of hope that maybe just maybe shit can get better but if i'm going to have to deal with people still talking down at me perhaps it'd be in my best interest to forgo speaking here in general permanently
While generative AI may assist in writing / proofreading / coding or other areas, when it comes to creativity (writing, art or animation), I am completely against the notion of using computer-generated ideas that (at least in part) replace human creativity.
Example: while AI might help artists / webcomic artists generate stories, the stories would feel off at some point because they lack the intricacies of human emotion. Instead of leveraging AI, I rather like the idea of writers/ artists racking their brains and coming up with stories that show pure human brilliance and the full creative credit goes to the human.
I myself rarely use AI. And I do hate it when AI generates 'art' by pulling and amalgamating various patterns from real artists.
I usually just block people when I see continued interaction as pointless. But that option isn't available here so walking away is a valid option IMO. Good luck with your next message board.
Ho yeah! It's like that with almost everything, the average person genuinely doesn't care about suffrage unless they're the one suffering. Or at least most are oblivious and ignorant to it until they're suffering, it's an animal instinct thing that requires rewiring/empathy training to get out of your system. Not saying our species is apathetic, by default we have SOME empathy, but educated empathy takes effort... sometimes through experience, unfortunately.
Did you stop ordering from amazon because of how they treat their workers, and not allowing to unionize though? Stopped buying clothes and brands made from sweatshops in some third-world country? Are you going to stop from using social media because they're using AI to code, replacing jobs, and scrape all your posts for training data?
Sure, some people may have switched away from Adobe products because of the AI controversy. I personally switched out from them ages ago ever since they went subscription, after v6- early CS days. I made my choice, but that doesn't mean I haven't acknowledged that they're the industry standard still, and that the tools am currently using are niche products in comparison. A lot of people are mad over Adobe's stance on AI but are still using their suite instead of taking the time to learn the alternatives.
Am just being a realist. Most people say they'll the fight the good fight, but like everyone else, they don't have the strength of their convictions… especially when it inconveniences them.
It's amusing to expect that strangers and society in general will change, when they themselves can't even sacrifice the things they use.
Personally, I'm really split between fearing ai and not taking it seriously. I feel the only 'impressive' thing AI has done is generating art. As an artist, I morally cannot support ai art in anyway due to the potential for companies to phase out real artist with crap that looks pretty to the untrained eye, but I will say it is impressive that ai can do that. Outside of that, I feel like AI is more of a fad, hyped up by tech evangelists and Silicon Valley as THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY THING TO OUR SOCIETY, when in reality it wont really add anything in the long run. Like, whenever I hear that statement, I always go back to stuff like Google's Gemini which they've shunted into their search engine (and honestly have made it worse), which tells you to use non toxic glue to keep cheese on pizza, drink you're own urine to pass a kidney stone quickly, or that Sandy Cheeks from SpongeBob died by unliving herself and was found with cocaine in her bloodstream by the Johannesburg Police Department.
Now I'm probably missing stuff that AI does that could actually benefit our society in a way that doesn't fuck over workers but in my opinion, I see AI as nothing but a trend that companies are trying so hard to push on us as being the "next big thing" but in reality only appeals to those who are obsessed with tech. Like with NFTS a couple of years back. And in regards to AI art, I really do think that stuff should be regulated in someway so that all artists aren't out of a job, because it does have the potential to screw us over. But in order for that to happen, its up to us artists to make sure these companies don't try anything funny
