wild

lol someone musta told him -- hi mutuals

16) Stole this one from a recent skeet I saw:

If generative AI could REALLY make the next GTA in 6 months with 10 staff, or write the next bestseller, or produce 10 blockbusters a day? They wouldn't be trying to sell it to YOU. They would keep it for themselves and guard it from you ferociously.

The internet has long had this problem where people who badly need help for paranoid schizophrenia etc can instead find a group that's like "we believe you, you ARE being gang-stalked, there IS a radio in your walls, that voice IS a real ghost"
But instead of fixing that, now we've *automated* it

I dunno man I've heard some say that our civilisation should forget any lessons we might have learned since the Kaiserreich, wonder what that's all about

11/ You're sure you're fighting against Big IP by not working with a human visual artist, and having some technocrat's pattern-copying engine spit out your drop-shipped tat.

10/ They're doing it on each other's projects every day. But you chose the Content Faucet instead. You helped cut the humans out of the bottom part -- the creative labour -- while strengthening the market presence of the top part -- the ownership. But ...

9/ And yeah, all the platforms are evil. But you're working them. You're monetised. You're selling merch! And no artist is gonna begrudge you that, in this day and age. Fuck it, get paid. But like ... someone could draw you up a shirt. Compose a tune. Animate some visuals ...

8/ There couldn't be anything less democratised or less subversive than having Sam Altman's GPU arcology spit out for you "Something recognisably like that song I want to use, but not legally actionable" ...

7/ You're not breaking down Big IP. Your AI image generator is a *platform*, it's owned by a zillionaire oligarch, it burns countless megawatts and was trained on a billion billion hours of uncompensated imagination ...

6/ So amid this mess of artists you see working on each other's content, it's disappointing when one you otherwise respect opts to have Skynet do a chunk of their visuals instead of working with a human being ...

5/ Because artists like to see each other get paid. You might do some free work for a friend, if you REALLY like their project, but ... nobody who makes shit with their hands and mind ever *asks* for a "friend price", much less for work on spec ...

4/ And you'll notice that independent artists, even pretty broke ones, continue to collaborate even when there's not a ton of money at stake. The small youtube channel hiring a musician, an animator, a voice actor ...

3/ You notice they shut uo about it pretty quick? They don't care. They stand to make more than they lose, by owning a Content Faucet that does not require the cost of human labour ...

2/ It's true there were about five seconds where it looked like the owners of major media franchises might try and weaponise IP law against AI harvesting, but ...