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Get fuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked

“This isn’t going to stop,” Allen told the New York Times. “Art is dead, dude. It’s over. A.I. won. Humans lost.”

“But I still want to get paid for it.”

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    17 days ago

    I haven’t seen that for some time, unless you’re broad brushing people that don’t like when artists stop getting commissions or lose their livelihoods entirely.

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        17 days ago

        In the current economic system you’re saying that artists trying to get paid for making art should effectively cease to exist.

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            17 days ago

            Feel that way if you must, but I am explaining why a lot of people here aren’t quite as bazinga for the treat printers when it comes to driving artists entirely out of the craft because of economic precarity, consequently leading to even more expansion of the bland and bleak brave new world of treat printers.

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                17 days ago

                the vast majority of artists don’t make money doing art and never will if they don’t work at a company

                Are you so certain of that?

                I don’t understand this take

                You may be more correct there than you realize, especially regarding my first question there.

                maybe it’s because I’m so into fanfiction but like there will always be millions of people making more art than you know what to do with

                Yeah fanfiction is cool and good but there really are people, from paid-by-commission artists to graphic designers to writers under publisher contracts that are all affected by treat printers. Their material conditions have worsened and precarity has increased. “You got yours,” so to speak, but that doesn’t mean you speak for everyone else there. Losing a job sucks; that shouldn’t be hard for you to understand.

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                    17 days ago

                    pretty certain the majority of people doing art do not make a living off it

                    Even if that were so (and that really depends on how wide your definitions are), does that invalidate the existence of everyone that does try to make a living with their art?

                    but like complain about the owners like normal don’t defend IP

                    Ideologically absolute anti-IP stances with no considerations for ordinary artists that aren’t IP-hoarding corporations aren’t likely to win over those artists or the people that care about them. You complained about a relative lack of support for your positions here. I am explaining why that is so.