Raw LLM Responses

hard disagree. while AI art does hurt bigger, more affluent artists since their art is what's most often copied (and they're the ones that can afford to hire lawyers), the ones this really hurts are the ones who are already struggling. I'm an artist myself and my commissions have completely dried up because other people have justified AI art TO MY FACE as just being cheaper and higher quality. people don't actually want to pay for the artist's or artisan's touch when they're already so badly pinched by the effects of rampant late-stage capitalism, they want the same pretty pictures but 'cleaner' and using less money. since art was already an 'intellectual' field, it was one of the most accessible fields for people who were physically disabled, right up there with writing. both are still draining, but significantly less so if you're, say, working with half a lung and a skeleton as sturdy as a soggy pringle that's held together with rubber bands. with the advent of AI art, many of us disabled folk have lost our sole source of supplementary income during a time when we needed it the most, while we're still going to get scrutinized based on what we would have made previously even though we're no longer making it. every time someone who justifies all this says 'well AI art can't do this one thing but humans can', someone else just makes a more sophisticated algorithm to compensate and another artist gets replaced. improving material conditions of people who are struggling to survive always needs to be a priority over idealistic end goals. with the way AI art is being used in the context of capitalism, this is a very 'guns don't hurt people, people hurt people' argument of tools vs. intent, when the tools themselves are - as of right now - fundamentally designed to be exploitative regardless of intent. dying on this hill ain't praxis, man. and to shift the conversation in this direction in leftist circles? this is not where the overton window of this discussion needs to be, for any artist's sake. there are reasons why we're stereotyped as starving.