I feel that the original quote “better a pig than a fascist” is more relevant and important these days than this take
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Someone at studio Ghibli recently said something about gen ai, apparently. But yeah agreed.
Edit: I've come out from under my rock and news has reached my as to why this quote is relevant again. The original quote seems more fitting over the ai one now.
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I still stand by Generative AI being a useful tool. It's just in the hands of big unilateral corporate tech rather than a public state, and artists depend on IP laws to gain profits to live, rather than being supported by a robust welfare state to provide art for a robust public domain.
Related, the post-WWII programs in England that fueled the Rock-&-Roll boom in the 1960s (with the invention and development of the electric guitar). Socialized art is a system that works well!
And yes, we'll probably have to collapse the current civilization and rebuild it with mutant animals before we get there. < sad, disappointed existential dread face >
It's just in the hands of big unilateral corporate tech rather than a public state, and artists depend on IP laws to gain profits to live, rather than being supported by a robust welfare state to provide art for a robust public domain.
The second situation is a fantasy until after we have a communist revolution. So, don't defend gen AI until after we create communism.
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Great post, drew out a couple of the most annoying kind of person on the internet so I could block them.
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I feel like all the people out there are mindless NPCs that just do anything a big corp say it's cool. make me feel helpless
As someone who uses generative AI, I don't use it out of some mindless obedience to corporations, but rather because it can massively reduce the work needed to perform certain tasks.
I think the fight against AI is a losing battle. Better to push for regulations in energy usage. (And no, I don't give a fuck about artists' intellectual property. I think intellectual property rights are holding humanity back in order to enrich a few artists who falsely and arrogantly believe themselves to be original thinkers, and who furthermore believe that being an original thinker gives them the right to prevent other people from spreading their ideas or thinking of the same thing.)
So, you think the need of artist to eat is a problem?
I mean, if anything an artist do it's worlds patrimony then they will me above the rules of capitalism and don't need to use money for food and tools, right?
I mean that will be the best solution, the artist will be able to do art and not content just to gain some bucks.
But no, the solution its a machine that generate content and take out the only weapon the artist have to being able to survive in this economy.
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