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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 9077113" data-attributes="member: 7023887">You're right. I don't have a single objection to AI art. That's just currently the most blatantly egregious one that everyone should be able to agree is a problem that needs to be righted if AI art is going to continue in the future (which it will). I do have a problem with the automation of art beyond thievery. My problem is that companies are trying to replace real, living artists with computers in order to made money. And that it will probably work. Not every industry can adapt to automation. Some just go away or are replaced. I, for one, am not looking forward to a future where actual, human artists have their art stolen from them and monetized without consent, replacing them with algorithms. I am not looking forward to a future where the already hard lives of artists is made even harder (if not downright impossible) by automation trained on their art. I dread a future where all human authors, screenwriters, graphic designers, and other artists have been replaced with monetized machines that can only create simulacra of art. Where one of the core uniting aspects of humanity for thousands of years is replaced with a computer, and not for the better. There is a huge difference between replacing an artist with a robot and still going to a concert even when you can just listen to music on a screen. There is no "get with the times" here. There is no "artists will find a way to adapt to new technology" when the new technology makes your career impossible. Asking artists to "get with the times" just means "move out of the way so we can replace you" when the technology makes them redundant. Corporations are already trying to replace artists (such as Hollywood writers) with AI. Of course artists will oppose the technology that corporations are trying to use to replace them. If artists and screenwriters can be replaced, how long until authors can? When will book publishing companies start trying to replace human authors with algorithms trained off of their books? How long until executives at Hasbro start trying to replace WotC's freelance writers with an algorithm? How long until someone develops an algorithm that can do whatever you do for a living, and your company decides to replace you? I am generally not against technological progress. But AI replacing jobs in this economic system? Where you have to work to make a living, and corporations are willing to do anything to make more money? I object to that, and I always will.</blockquote>

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