NFTs never posited a clear story with useful outcomes that could get the masses on board, so nobody except collector-types, FOMOers, and grifters were interested in them. 

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.

It’s honestly hysterical. This was such an easy PR win for them, a slam dunk with almost zero effort on their part. Not only did they miss the layup, they hurled the ball into the stands, then dropped their pants and pissed on the crowd.

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

Considering Epic’s response to Steam banning NFTs last year was to say “We wouldn’t ever do that!” this is not surprising.

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!

AI art is so insidious and a blight to the community, I hate it. I shouldn’t have to put an ugly water mark on my art just to be able to post it without fear of it being taken and tossed in the AI meat grinder (ignoring how rampant art thefts already is) so it can churn out some mediocre soulless copy of my work.…

They really can’t shut up in GOW:R. I’m just rooting around for loot and it’s constantly “hey why don’t you do the obvious thing over here?”

I look forward to God of War Ragnarok adding the same option for puzzle hint chatter. Like, let me have the time to even figure out that what I’m looking at even is a puzzle.

Its not a tool if it replaces the whole pipeline and people use it to present the pure outputs as their own “art”. Its not made by you, but rather the 100% of the people that had their images in the datasets, which means it has 0% creattivity and is merely a mashup.

Digital art has made the process more forgiving. But the basic process of the artist directly inputing 99% of the visuals with their careful hand-movements and making thousands of minute decisions was the same as before. Some blurring at the edges depending on how much they over-relied on filters and certain PS tools,…

The problem is that as people become more and more dependent on “factory made” goods, actual craft and know-how is often lost. We saw this with the advent of industrialized goods. Not many people know how for instance to craft intricately woven baskets of extreme complexity, and many techniques are now simply…

I know it’s not the same, but I like Warframe’s system. Want the new robot guy we just released right now? Buy it. Want it without spending money? Run this mission for a chance to roll one of the parts you need. Collect them all, build them, then wait 3 days while the robot builds itself. There is a push and pull…

It’s just that rationally you should be able to understand that in the long run it’s cheaper.

If they’re playing a game, they be a gamer, laddie.

Is a gay person who never had sex gay? Who am I to say?

But there’s no intent in the individual elements. You could build a physical machine that could splatter paint on a canvas, but it wouldn’t mean anything compared to a Pollock. It would be trivial to digitally convert an existing image into a pointillist image, but that’s nothing compared to actually looking at a…

This guy’s great. That propaganda show is so boring, and these people take themselves so seriously, it’s nice to see someone that can make fun of all that if just for a minute. Award shows are terrible, it’s just a bunch of people congratulating themselves for doing their job and getting paid a lot. You won’t see the…

A sizable portion of this comment section should never, ever have a kid.

“calling Shroyer his “favorite person on Infowars”