To be fair, you could replace the banjo player from Mumford & Sons with an old Showbiz Pizza animatronic and it barely change their sound or image.

The delicious irony that even after getting in bed with right wing detritus, her new audience still thinks her too “woke” for their blood. 

She coulda had the Disney corporation delivering dump trucks of cash to her house on a routine basis, but she wanted to be mad online, instead. I would delete my Twitter account for Disney money. I would delete my Twitter account for Lifetime television money. I would delete my Twitter account for $20 actually.

Her platform and rhetoric amplify and lend legitimacy to the people who commit those very hate crimes, and the folks who call for more of them to happen (such as that one subhuman the BBC published). Just because she herself isn’t out in the streets with a hammer doesn’t mean she isn’t just as responsible.

“The story is the bigger issue though, like what the hell. Why am I mowing down sentient, intelligent creatures that want equal rights?”

“just ignore it and it’ll pass over time”

It is ridiculously naive, but not less so your claim that it doesn’t matter. It isn’t like somewhere, abstractly, up the line there is a bad actor here: JK Rowling is a prominent part and directly benefits. Much more so than most scenarios, and she has used her influence to continue to hurt trans people. It also isn’t…

It’s not really “looking for reasons” when Rowling has very publicly made those statements…but this is all spoken like someone who probably has never had to deal with comments like these directed and them. Must be nice. 

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

AI art being inevitable doesn’t mean they way it’s integrated in our life/work can’t be done better. It CAN be changed, it just that this (your?) exact mindset leads to shying away from the responsibilities...

These artists posted art before AI art became a thing, so they did not exactly expect their work to be…

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

AIs don’t “take inspiration” from ANYTHING. That’s the difference. You’re humanizing an algorithm. They literally steal the characteristics of an artist’s style and then overlay it onto other styles like a fucking connect-the-dots to reproduce something *unique* but as much as mathematically possible in-the-style-of…

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

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,…

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.

Yes.  People should be allowed to share their moment.  It’s a great opportunity to be proud of the accomplishments of other people.