But but....Cancel Culture, the right wing says...

Also at least as of this time, trying to tweet any link to Mastodon at all is prevented with a warning that “it may be unsafe.”

Matt, if i may be so bold as to speak for the readership. We are going to miss you around here after your final day.

Ya know, I‘m beginning to think this whole “free speech absolutism” thing is bullshit.

The only appreciable difference I can see is that these are far more blatant in their ego-stroking, and while steaks and water might have required some kind of infrastructure to produce an actual physical product, an NFT is a digital nothingburger, of which you can produce & sell amounts limited only by the suckers…

The artist, in the context of taxidermy, is still a person who has undertaken time and effort to produce something that looks decent, unless you’re this guy...

AI art is here and it isn’t going away.

why is it only seemingly visual artists getting hot and bothered by this stuff?

Bro, the problem isn’t that AI exists, it’s that all of the models people are using to generate “art” were made by stealing art without the artists’ permission.  It’s one of the largest-scale cases of copyright infringement I’ve ever seen.  Frequently, generated art even still has artist signatures or stamps embedded…

Go differently, perhaps. But AI art has been influenced and even propped up by the same people shilling for NFTs; the same ones all for stealing art and calling it their own for different means. One thing they have in common is the absolute disdain, antipathy, and envy towards people who have a passion for drawing,…

i see the AI stuff as basically people who like to play with toys, but when the toys affect the actual world in negative ways they just don’t care or find it validating. i feel like we need better humanities education in order to combat this but it’s a pretty deep problem at this point

Even accepting the underlying assumption of your argument (that algorithmically generated art will occupy a central place for... artists, which remains to be seen), that says absolutely nothing about how it’s presented, rolled out and used.

Funny, I remember a year ago hearing the exact same thing about NFTs.

I just don’t get how a website exists only for artists, fucks artists over then wonders why the artists got mad? YOU HAD ONE JOB, LOOK AFTER THE ARTISTS!

Jesus christ, this is the easiest thing in the world to not fuck up and it feels like every company is hell-bent on making the worst possible decisions in any given moment.

Have you ever wondered why you don’t have any friends?

This guy’s rolling up on all the AI articles, glossing over the human element (e.g. the theft that fuels the current iteration of AI) to extol the wonders of AI. Like those who have come before him in other areas throughout history, it always boils down to: “Shut up about empathy, give me my toy.”

Based on your hate-boner for a typical Kotaku writer, I may have some ideas.

Luke doesn’t seem the type to touch you.