Raw LLM Responses

Luddism. Anger about the inevitable advancement of technology for the good of all humankind simply because the process -- the changing of markets, supply and demand, etc. -- is messy, disruptive, and creates uncertainty. Yet you could see this coming for decades -- not exactly how it would play out, but futurists have been talking about the advent of artificial intelligence and the emergence of a "global brain" via the internet since at least the nineties, and in more general terms since well before that. He's afraid of the what's going to happen to human imagination and creativity. That all depends on us. Each of us. All of us. I try to listen to him, and to Karla Ortiz, but their naivete and Luddism just upsets me. This is the beginning of a new era of visual communication. This is the democratization of creativity. This is the freeing of the human mind. Yeah, it's financially uncomfortable for visual artists in the short-term. But the future benefits are more than worth such temporary disruption. Further, trained visual artists are probably in a better position to leverage the power of these new technologies than almost anyone. They simply need to let go of the past, and to embrace the possibilities of today and tomorrow. In the decades to come, through the use of new tools and understandings, human visual creativity will flourish like never before. As for the training of generative AI models by means of allowing them to see art that is freely available for all to see on the internet? That's fair use, by any definition. It's fundamentally no different from one of the ways in which human artists learn their craft.