#Because they don't like musk

[upfrog]

An AI-generated art hot-take

Time to get some people mad at me.

I just saw a post where someone was expressing their frustration at generative AI, specifically the risk it poses to artists, and how it continues/worsens/partakes of a tradition of reducing art to a finished product. There was a particular piece of it that made me very annoyed, and I've seen this piece in a lot of posts about generated art. Well, it's past midnight where I am, I'm tired, and I'm tired of shutting up about my view on this.

"It's [AI art's] entire central premise is built on the grim truth that many people don't see artists as skilled laborers using years of practiced skill to create something unique, but as data to be exploited"

Some other posts also emphasize a perceived sense of entitlement to art; that AI art advocates feel it is unfair for artistic creation to be limited to the elect few.

I would like to give a very strong rule. Like all rules, no doubt you could come up with exceptions to it. But this rule is foundational to the world around us, it's development, and it's future.

Making it easier to create things is good. Period. Making it take less time, effort, people, and training to create things is good. Period.

Technology making jobs redundant is a good thing. It is the foundation of almost all human progress. We are all descendants of farmers who were cruelly put out of work by new technological developments. The day when one person and a computer can do the work of an entire department of artists will be a good day - we are not there, maybe we'll never get there. But technology making people redundant is good. Expanding the ability of the average human to do things is good. And the fact that we have gotten to the point where people are unironically saying "it's *good*, actually, that it takes years of practice and effort to be able to produce good art, and you shouldn't want it any other way" is... Perverse? Horrifying? Taking self-interest into the realm of actively tearing your fellow humans down?

To be clear (because this is the internet, and if I don't specify then someone will fill in the gap with the worst things imaginable) I'm not saying that a future where generative AI is extremely good, widespread, and accessible will not have downsides. The threats of bespoke scams, deepfaked videos, floods of bots with a superb ability to guide the narrative, and so on are real, dangerous, and may already be coming to pass.

I know that one aspect of the anti-AI-generated art kickback has to do with the nature of professional art, and the type of people who do it. "Art", broadly defined, is substantially a passion field. You don't do it to get rich, or to have a stable life. You do it because you love the work, and are willing to put up with a thousand downsides, annoyances, and more in order to do what you love. And having this taken away feels cruel in a way that, say, keeping grad students and accountants from having to manually calculate thousands of sums doesn't.

A few words of encouragement. Widespread literacy may have killed the scribal profession as it was understood at the time. But it opened up vastly more work than it destroyed, even if you just count the directly writing-related work. Mass-produced off-the-shelf clothing shrunk the tailor (as once understood) into practical insignificance. Does that mean that no one who is passionate about making clothes can work in the field now? No. We have far, far more clothing (insert anti fast fashion rant here, I'm all on board with that kickback), and more variety, and lots of people working with clothing. The development of software code compilers unemployed a large number of human compilers. In many ways, programming has gotten easier over the years, with a lower barrier to entry, more comprehensible languages, more resources, and so on. But that hasn't meant that software developers are stuck in an unemployment hell of too many job seekers and not enough openings. We, as a society, keep on finding more and more things we want them to program, and demand for the skillset keeps rising. I can't see the future. Maybe AI-generated art will be the end of employment for artists. Maybe the generative AI revolution is fundamentally different from every past productivity revolution. But I doubt it.

#ai art #ai #art #hot take #technology #The part I'm really sad about in all of this is how “tech bro” has become associated with basically everything tech #and how the tech bro stereotype is now often thought of as right-wing. #This makes sensible discussions of technology more difficult because people are using the tech topic as a tool to argue a more general #and unrelated political idea #Like #to change fields a bit #lots of left-ish people are all aboard on space travel. But as Musk has gone more and more right #and presented himself as more and more right #people who might otherwise have cheered any advance in space travel are now glad when a SpaceX thing doesn't work #Because they don't like musk #and musk/space is subsumed into the greater political debate #I don't like it #but in all fairness #I do think the Communists are on to something when they say that “everything is political”. #So a bit of an internal conflict there.

[scentedluminarysoul]

#twitter #fuck elon musk #jfc #i hope they're willing volunteers and elon stans #and not #coerced poor people #because i honestly don't give a shit about elon stans #if they want it #let them get it #some problems solve themselves #also funny how elon and his stans are always like ''bill gates puts microchips in us with vaccines!!!'' #and yet here we are #id in alt

[rowanoftheunknown]

Are we ready to acknowledge that Spirit Phone wasn't just annoying gay kid tiktok music but one of the best technopop concept albums (and in my opinion, one of the best concept albums period) of all time. And it's beloved by young queers. Double win.

#spirit phone #lemon demon #i have many feelings about this #i feel like annoying gay kid music is this eras version of hating it because young girls like it #not that that has gone away etiher i want to be clear #but like!! so what if kids are kinda cringe and doing a little dance to cabinet man! what are you doing thats so noble #i don't really think anyone here is saying this particularly but its a pervasive opinion on the musk site

[vellichorom]

Sure we can question colour palettes and toothpaste flavours, but what flavour shampoo does this man use?!!

OLD SPICE, BABEY !!!!!! at least that's what i always joke he uses, anyway! bearglove or nightpanther perhaps, whatever those smell like.... the scent doesn't really matter, so long as his hair's clean!

with rosemary's inclusion in the complex though, & with his adapting the place as WELL as it's accessories more to her liking, he probably ends up using whatever shampoo she likes in the end. which may or may not make him smell violently of apples(?)

#anonymous #inbox #Thierry tag #TSP blogging #i mean the office musk is going to just reimbue itself into him so it doesn't matter but #fresh out of the shower? the delicious sting of old man shampoo #either that or like. you know. irish spring ( i don't know if they have shampoos ) #you think i don't have an answer for every question like this? because i do #guess what he's also using non name brand toilet paper to wipe his ASS

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

i really do hate how like every other post about the muskrat is like "what a narcissist hahahaha" and "omg could it not pay for him to grow an EMPATHY braincell?????" and it's like. yeah i hate him too but stop being a fucking asshole to people with npd and aspd and hpd and disorders that can cause one to have low empathy or attention seeking or anything else you're insulting him for.

he's not going see your stuff and feel bad. I HOWEVER am going to see your stuff and say "wow. thanks for saying i am as bad as a horrible vile member of the bourgeoisie who hurts people constantly and sucks so much. i love that."

#npd #aspd #hpd #OH AND THAT GOES FOR SOCIOPATH/PYSCHOPATH TOO YOU FUCKING ANNOYING PEOPLE #wheres the image with the like mirror and the bouncy offy thing that hits the other person #like you think you're getting him big time but really all you are telling me is that you suck as a person #or you're ignorant and need to stop hurling around words you don't actually understand #because it fuckin hurts okay. i am not like elon musk. even if it's a mistake it still hurts

[wewontbesleeping]

this post i just saw on fb is so funny. i used to get into "debates" w this guy in high school bc he hated gay people and women so much lol. and he apparently knows what shinigami eyes is now? and he's calling a song that's like 3 years old "new". but i'm particularly enjoying that he suspects grimes might be dipping her toes into something potentially unsavory, but he isn't quite sure...

#elon musk is RED on shinigami eyes you guys!!!!!! #omg did you hear? grimes just took 'anti imperialist' out of her bio!!! #i'm starting to suspect she may not be on the up and up... #like. lmfao. #he's on the case don't worry #fb is just so fun because it's like. NOTHING on there is current at ALL #even if it's a brand new post it's REALLY somehow a post from 5 years ago #at LEAST #often it's even really from 2012

[ranger-kellyn]

i said it on my swiftie blog last but fuck it i'll say it here too bc i woke up still annoyed about it:

for a website that does a ton of bitching and moaning about media literacy and and saying all this "you all clearly didn't pay attention in high school english", funny how suddenly none of y'all know what a fucking metaphor is.

of course taylor wasn't literally raised in an asylum! the public eye is the inescapable asylum!

i think about all the genuinely shitty and harmful things i've said and done across all my nearly 30 years. i have said and done some awful shit, because i am an incredibly fallible person who was raised by incredibly fallible parents and relatives, raised in a fallible community (things i literally had ZERO choice in) and surrounded by incredibly fallible friends. i have hung around some horrible people who said and did horrible things.

if i had to learn everything i've learned all while under a microscope from the public-- yeah! i'd go fucking insane! i wouldn't last ten seconds in that!!

and i really reckon you wouldn't, either, because the unfortunately reality is we're all fallible. most of us just have the luxury of being complete nobodies

#i'm not saying anyone has to LIKE the album #i'm not even saying everyone HAS to listen to the album i really don't care and honestly i'm glad we're weeding out some of the normies #but the way some of y'all act like you've never said or done ANYTHING shitty in your life #idk maybe i'm too forgiving bc ever since i was 13 i've just been existing from one mental health crisis to the next #also it does continue to be LAUGHABLE at how little self control some of y'all have #like it's so fucking easy to ignore the artists bands and celebs i hate or don't like #y'all probably don't even know who that list includes apart from the obv musk and bezos bc i waste no brain space on any of them #anyways it's probably time for another small tumblr break because THIS asylum regularly drives me insane lmao #i get being a hater can be fun now and again but at what point are you doing nothing but engaging in being a hater as a form of self harm #trust me: #surrounding yourself with nothing but other haters and negativity actively makes you see and think the world is worse than it already is #been there #like one of my psych professors would say: cathartic behaviours are only helpful up to a point. they can quickly become a form of self har

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

i have a low cringe comedy tolerance so i do have trouble finishing a lot of adult animation- especially ones that have questionable humor like how Archer writes about rape- but there’s a sliding scale in how much they talk about sex, how deeply they talk about or show sex, how violent they are, how that violence is used, how much they reference drugs, but none of these things make a show more or less bad on their own.

Archer has a LOT of sex and doesn’t comment on modern society much, but makes funny jokes kids wouldn’t care about like this

Bojack Horseman has tons of sex and drugs, using them both for comedy and tragedy, also frequently talks about mental health while commenting on modern trends like Bill Cosby and normalization of toxic behavior from media. The media jokes don’t feel tired or out of place though because the characters are in Hollywoo and jokes about celebrities on twitter makes sense. It also has simple jokes like

See, this is a joke that’s too depressing for kids, but the punchline isn’t just that he mentions being depressed, it’s that he’s indignantly telling someone about his own pathetic behavior.

Star Trek Lower Decks is sometimes violent, frequently swears, often has drinking, but rarely shows sex, and has a lot of jokes based in Star Trek lore or in mocking military chains of command rather than based in the other things. However, being less intense than the other shows doesn’t mean it’s not for

adults, as it still has scary imagery like this

And the criticism of hierarchies that’s frequent in the show might not always land for kids who don’t understand chain of command and might not care.

It’s just there’s so many ways to cater to adults in animated comedies (not even mentioning America’s few adult action cartoons) and the idea that to make something Adult you just need to slap some raunchy humor on it without trying to be clever or that raunchy humor and maybe a topical reference are as far as the joke needs to go to be good is just so utterly BORING

#i'm not even that well versed in adult animation i'm just like #when adult cartoons are good they can be some of the best shows #and idk i don't want adulthood completely neutered so it CAN'T make jokes about drugs alcohol or sex because those things are part of life #and you should be able to make jokes about those things #and you should be able to make jokes about elon musk or politics or whatever #but i'm sick of hearing there's a new adult cartoon and having a 50/50 chance it's going to be a brickleberry

[jessiarts]

Friendly reminder that while everyone is (rightfully) blocking brands to remember that small businesses are not brands.

Artists, authors, musicians, or other creators on here are also not brands.

They are in no way comparable to Nestle, Coke, or Warner Bros and they're just trying to pay rent, eat, and in the case of small businesses, make payroll so the people working with them can also pay rent and eat. They're not here to trick you into making them ungodly rich so they can keep exploiting others.

I don't own a small business, but I can share from my experience as an artist who occasionally takes the odd commission and (attempts) to sell her art on Etsy, fundamentally we just want to create and share with others, to see how our work makes others in our communities happy, and to find the same enjoyment in other's work as well. But, because we still need to do things like pay rent and eat in this society, we're going to try and make things to sell so we can pay the bills and continue to create. This does not make any of us the same as brands who rake in millions that they hoard for the higher ups while tossing scraps to those they exploit.

Please support small businesses and indie creators, or the reality is they'll fade away and you'll only be left with those brands and mega-corps you claim to hate.

#artists #authors #indie creators #small business #support small business #support indie artists #support indie authors #fuck brands #twitter #elon musk #brands #support indie creators #psa #It's ok to reblog this #reminder that likes on tumblr don't help boost posts because there is no algorithm

[silverfox66]

When you don't pay your bills 🤷‍♀️

#This is going to be a vicious circle #Twitter can't pay the bill #needs to put a limit in how long people can be on the app #advertisers don't like this because it will end up costing too much with not enough rewards #advertisers lose trust in the platform and pull out #Twitter continues to lose money #RIP #Twitter #Elon Musk

[asleepinawell]

I feel like I should be handing out coffee and blankets to the latest round of twitter refugees coming here

#I don't have coffee though and the cat says I can't give away any blankets because they are all hers #mp #twitterpocalypse #anyway #welcome to tumblr #how can something be so funny and depressing at the same time #every time I start getting a bunch of new followers I'm like oh what did musk do now and go check #it's really so deeply fucked up #and now we get to see if laws and regulations can impact the richest man in the world

[saintofpride201]

There's like... 5 layers of irony in the existence of Genlock season 2. The theme of the Ship of Theseus being prominent in season 1, and later season 2 being transfered to a different company, with writers, artists, and overall staff being replaced entirely to the point where it's not the same show anymore. The hamfisted anti-capitalist ideology that wasn't present in the first season (or at least not in the way s2 presents it), and the fact that season two is what it is because of greedy capitalistic practices. The fact that a plot point was greed and wanting results as quick as possible (also leading to the plot being rushed), and the fact that season 2 was quickly rushed out with only about a week of marketing out of nowhere.

Just... So many things. They may have had an RT supervisor, but a lot of good THAT did.

#Genlock #Genlock season 2 #I'm still salty that they assassinated Holcroft's entire character just to shit on Elon Musk #We get it. No one likes him. *I* don't like him. But honestly grow the fuck up. #Stop projecting your hatred of real life figures onto fictional characters in shows. It's pathetic. #Also the assassination of Marin. In both senses of the term. #She was a general who cared seriously deeply about ALL her people. But suddenly there's a heel turn where she's not so good anymore. #Retcons everywhere. As a result of writers who knew jack shit about what they were doing and didn't even bother staying consistent- #because they weren't even fans of the source material to begin with. #God I'm just so angry about how they trashed the whole thing. It's been 3 years i know. But i enjoyed the hell outta s1. #It got me through senior year at highschool after rwby v6 ended. And it was so damn cool #I miss it. A lot.

[anothermonikan]

I straight up don't care. I'm straight up vibing. I'm straight up about to go eepy mode.

#this is about me having a 1k word essay due in in like. 45 minutes. I have wrote one paragraph #It's not marked it's for practice and I will do it but. Idk #I'm not that tired but like. gosh. I haven't got good sleep in eons (Like a week) #I just feel like I cant rn. the urgency is not there #also it's about fucking starlink man I don't wanna do an essay on starlink I hate Elon Musk #All the studies and articles I can find are expressly negative LOL #...which is funny but it makes it harder because I assume we have to find both positives and negatives #wahhhh #android.txt

[marklikely]

hey what is going on in tech right now that we keep having to do this "new buzzword dominating every conversation you have" thing every year

#i swear to god it didn't used to be this prevalent or change this frequently #like if tech companies were getting into something you at least wouldn't have to hear about it every day but now its like #2021 every single day you will hear about nfts. everyone will need to learn what crypto is #2022 every single day you will hear about the metaverse. everyone will know what the metaverse is #2023 every single waking minute you will hear about AI. forever. #and in the case of those last 2 the terms are mostly big bc they mean nothing and get applied to everything #anyway. will the AI shit crash and burn like metaverse and nfts did before it or are we going to be stuck in this one forever #i personally think its a lot less likely to flop like the other 2 because a lot of regular people are actually buying into this one #and playing with stuff that's labeled AI in a way that nobody did with stuff labeled as metaverse #like metaverse and nft headlines were always about some company trying to push it into consumers #but most of the stuff around machine generated stuff (somehow we count this as Intelligence i guess) is from regular people. #avpost #im tired im ready to be done with all this i don't want to have to hear elon musk's thoughts ever again. #fully ready to become old man yelling at cloud.

[megafreeman]

Its insane how many people here, when criticizing staff's shitty decision making, they completely fail to take into account how IT companies actually work and just spew bullshit like its some gotcha at the staff. Yall are making all of us rightfully criticizing their terrible decisions like fools that have no idea what they're talking about.

#misc #its insane #just saw a post implying staff hired UI artists outta blue to make UI changes #as if being an UX artist isn't a full time job and that most people working on it have been working on Tumblr for years??? #and that's not even taking into account all the shit takes that are #''HA! I did a poll and it has 90% saying they're on tumblr for 10+ years! gottem staff!'' #like yeah bestie... that's why they're changing the UI... because the only people using this site are here since before 2013 #and us being here isn't profitable enough to keep the site running? because they have since 2013 sold the site... twice #I'm all for yelling at them for making shit decisions because they have been on a stream of making terrible terrible decisions #but like... #don't make up how the site works as a gotcha #you are 90% of the time painfully wrong #yall sound like elon musk explaining how twitter works to his circlejerk before breaking the site with a shitty decision #anyway can we go back to shitting on the new UX without acting smart about how site management works

[blindrapture]

#putting this on here because nobody should Have To go on twitter to read something important #I don't actually think the worm was meant to be Musk #but i absolutely believe in that assessment of what the show was About #the youtube series was about Education whereas the TV show was about Adult Life and it used TV itself as the foil for it #this is why the wallace and gromit expy was so prevalent. nudging you towards 'eh? a TV show? and what are you watching right now?' #it was obviously Very Important that the *format* of dhmis was now a TV Show. that had to be accounted for in interpretation #and television-- especially british television-- *is* used to set expectations of what Normal Adult Life will be like #dhmis is fundamentally about three characters who learn from flawed sources and then fail in predictable specific ways #and jesus christ i loved this