Raw LLM Responses

@PBoten While I agree that everyone should be guaranteed a roof over their head and food on their table regardless of their employment situation, there are two main issues I see with your argument. First, changing our systems to guarantee those things (and, as a German, I'm well ahead there compared to Americans, even though it's not perfect here either and our rights are at constant risk of being taken from us again, now more than ever), is going to take time, and we're constantly facing opposition from politicians funded by the very people who are responsible for these problems, namely the capitalists who own our places of work. They are the cause of this suffering, and liberal democracies are not equipped to bring them down, much less the authoritarian systems many countries are spiralling into. So what are artists gonna do when their job opportunities are taken by "AI" in the meantime? Will they just have to deal with it until the communist revolution? Second: The invention of photography, while taking some work from traditional artists (not in all areas and applications, and it added new forms of artistic expression as well) didn't make traditional art harder to create. If anything, it made it easier, since reference images were more easily available and more precise. Previously, say you wanted to draw an elephant, you either had to find an actual elephant or find a drawing of one, which obviously would only be an artist's interpretation of one and will contain their own biases on what they decided to focus on, which details to depict or omit, what pose they used and what it conveys, what THEY used as reference, as well as mistakes they might have made. If you want to draw an elephant today, you can just google "elephant" and find millions and billions of reference photos. Well, in theory, because algorythms decide which images to show you, and an influx of "AI" images often take over your results. Which makes it harder to find genuine reference material, and if you can't tell that something is "AI" and use it as reference, the benefit of having access to accurate depictions to learn from in the form of photos is gone, because you might inadvertantly replicate "AI"'s mistakes. And of course, regardless of all this it's still theft, artists' works were used by corporations for training data without their consent, and it doesn't add anything of any merit, as photography did. Anything "AI" can do, humans can do better. All it does is enable tech bros' egos by letting them cosplay creativity, and if anyone ever needed an ego boost, it's gotta be those poor, humble tech bros. /s