@30b6b534 People hate artists though.

Individuals love specific artists, and society loves art, culture, entertainment...

But at some point as it scales, the collective agrees to treat artists like absolute dogshit.

Perhaps it's because creators evoke strong emotions, and we naturally dislike more stuff than we like... 

 @30b6b534 ❤️ 

 @30b6b534 just like we hire an orchestra every time we'd like to listen to some music. 

 @9ade776d You don't hire an orchestra to create new music. You hire a composer. 

 @30b6b534 You do realize, that from the perspective of a rentier capitalist, that old model had a very big problem, called “artist” that wanted to be paid? 

 @30b6b534 and we already had a way to host apps on the Internet, but AWS still killed thousands of companies for no actual productivity gain. 

 @30b6b534 I find it quite amusing that there are now so many ML-generated images, that image-generation ML models are now trained partly with ML-generated images.
Digital incest, kinda. 

 @30b6b534 every now and then I wonder whether the kind of people who claim they "made" their AI art would claim they "made" their commissioned art, but of course they would. 

 @30b6b534 #innovative 

 @30b6b534 Yes. Commissioned.