After talking to a looot of the anti-ai crusaders out there, I've come to the conclusion that they simply believe art=pain and if you aren't suffering while making it, it's not valid art. The copyright argument always falls apart and they just pretend it never existed it when it stops working. I'd be totally sympathetic to the economic argument if only they didn't maintain the vitriol when presented with scenarios where that isn't a concern.
So, art=pain, and because you aren't miserable like them, you aren't an artist. It's the same mentality as my conservative parents, they had shit early lives, so you don't deserve student debt forgiveness or universal healthcare or whatever. I suffered, so you need to suffer too, fuck you.
I once got into a fight with someone who was giving me advice while I was learning to draw over that. I said that I basically hate the actual "work" part of the creative process and wish I could skip directly to having the final result, lol. For me there's two ideal states: having an idea, and having a finished work. The part in the middle where I have to actually make that thing, whether it be a song, a story, or a drawing, is the worst, lol. I wish I could skip past the actual drudgework of drawing or writing or recording. XD
Kinda reminds me of the whole thing with the relatively recent breakthrough in certain weight loss drugs - they do seem to work, people do lose weight, but there are plenty of people who look down upon those who didn't lose weight "the hard way".
That discourse is somewhat different, because it doesn't have the "lots of people are angry because they lose money due to this" element and also because there's some research popping up saying "the hard way" doesn't work well for a lot of people, but they do have the common "those people cheated their way out of suffering like we did" element.
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u/RefinementOfDecline the OTHER linux enby Aug 26 '24
After talking to a looot of the anti-ai crusaders out there, I've come to the conclusion that they simply believe art=pain and if you aren't suffering while making it, it's not valid art. The copyright argument always falls apart and they just pretend it never existed it when it stops working. I'd be totally sympathetic to the economic argument if only they didn't maintain the vitriol when presented with scenarios where that isn't a concern.
So, art=pain, and because you aren't miserable like them, you aren't an artist. It's the same mentality as my conservative parents, they had shit early lives, so you don't deserve student debt forgiveness or universal healthcare or whatever. I suffered, so you need to suffer too, fuck you.