Comment on Not everything needs to be Art
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI also think capitalism is a race to the bottom, but I believe it is so because it subverts the value of labor. It’s shit like AI that makes it a race to the bottom.
shit most wouldn’t spend money on or stuff where instead of paying for a stock photo they just generate shit and be done with it.
Then pay for the stock photo. There, an artist is being paid for their work. But realistically the little stuff you’re talking about is the occupation of entire departments in megacorps.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Paying a stock photo “artist” or some AI slop “artist”, I’m not sure it makes any difference. The stuff AI generates is already so sloppy generic corporate bs that it’s hard to think of anyone deserving to paid anything for it anyway. It’s mimicking a horrid generic art style and a horrid generic art style like that isn’t owned by a particular artist anyway.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Honestly that’s kinda worse, because it’s specifically replacing entry-level jobs
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Replacing jobs in one place and giving them elsewhere. It is what it is.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s not giving them elsewhere.
There is not and will not be an abundance of prompt “engineering” jobs, it’s not creating new industries, and it’s not significantly lowering the bar for people to start their own businesses is existing industries.
What it is doing is data-mining on a scale never seen before, and increasing profit margins for megacorp business owners.