Raw LLM Responses

The fine art world has already separated itself from the common man by creating a paradigm of a ladder to 'fame and fortune' and telling you who the top artists are and were after proclaiming themselves as experts. 100 years of 'abstract' messes being exchanged for large amounts of money has resulted in the illusion that the image must be 'good' because the experts say it is (regardless of what your own eyes and brain tells you) and if you are lucky enough to be 'discovered' you too can get wealthy and respected by splattering paint and your feelings too. Decades of programming in tv and movies have served to get people to think the rich are 'astute collectors' with some special powers the hoi polloi do not have. Fine art is already the haunt of the sickest and greediest people on earth (spirit cooking, Manzoni's own shit in a can, R, Mutt on a urinal etc) - and most likely is a money laundering method for many - almost certainly with criminals involved. Maybe Manzoni painted epic murals as well but only his literally real poop that he canned and sold ($60k for the last can of the series at auction I read) matters in the art world - if you want your legacy to be like that then keep on the gallery ladder and see if you can come up with anything original at this point, everything gross and sick and degenerate has been done and sold, you can't just poop in a can and get paid, it's been done and done. Trying to break into this system where the illusion of your personality and background transcending the actual image itself is cultural programming cemented with the likes of the deification of Van Gogh - we common people feel the magic and enjoy the story thanks to our culture and , like with Vincent, the images are decorative and pleasing but Van Gogh himself wasn't trying to be Michelangelo or even Bouguereau, who you probably never heard of but was the most rich and famous artist of his day with art you have seen but didn't know the artist (trust me, you've seen his art). The AI only exists within the screens you look at - I make oil painted original murals that an AI couldn't ever replicate - the light and shadow methods I use are not 'logical' and while my AI iterations of my murals are interesting they have no intrinsic worth. I actively encourage my work that I post on social media to be used for any purpose as the images tell their own story regardless of the intent of the user, Copywrites are a trap that mire an artist in legal paperwork when they could be creating work instead of fighting to get their slice of the money pie from it - all the financial aspects to fine art are distractions from the work - and the work is not the finished product it's the journey. My friends have shown me work they dutifully kept in their collections for decades and I don't even remember doing it - it is mine and I gave to them out of love but I have no emotional attachment to it - the work itself is tangential to the reflection of myself giving art to my friends - I've always given art to my friends, my whole half century of life and I'm still giving art to people with the AI as a tool - I know how the human eye works and have studied fine art to the point where I can select the images that I know people with enjoy, if only for a second as they scroll by - AI just makes my energy of giving art stronger - I never did it for money and while I wash dishes and live on the verge of homelessness I'm still able to be the same me I always was regardless of the money aspect. Starving artists and those struggling to find their personality upon the canvas is a trope that people may dabble within for a while but the reality is that artists trying to make money or just forging a personality that isn't as boring as other labels they have will invariably reduce the amount of 'themselves' on the canvas as soon as they start selling work - sold a painting of a flower and not of a car,? well you know what you are being guided to paint next and if you do it faster and use cheaper materials then you 'win' by default in this capitalistic world. You aren't owed anything by putting your 'passion' into your work - your reward was already given if you truly did that as each brush stroke is you being you and improving and then having something to share - being an artist isn't a job, it isn't a trophy case of awards or even a popularity contest it is above all that, take the AI art bot issue as your wake up call to see if you are really making art for the only reasons that matter or just as a way to pay your bills and deal with it. Good luck y'all, sorry if that sounded harsh but I started wanted to get my artistic output to be as 'good' as Michelangelo (back in 1989 after a Renaissance art history class) and still haven't got there but I wasn't ever in it for the money just to have a goal to reach and if the AI copies my work, of which I have uploaded constantly under different names for decades now, it just means part of me is in your work!