Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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If you have some free time and aren't easily depressed, go ahead and look up the backgrounds of your favorite, recently ascendant artists. Many, if not most of them come from privileged backgrounds, have wealthy spouses, trust funds, or familial industry connections.
And while I personally don't think that such advantages necessarily diminish the importance of their art, just think of how much more potentially moving and profound work we'll never see just because the people who should be making it never got chance to develop, since they've been too busy just trying to keep a roof over their heads.
If you want to see art though you can just ask a computer to make it for you
And where did that computer get the artwork it pieced together?
Someone is going to say the same way a flesh artist does. But I think it's more than synthesis of what a person sees, its their lived experience
Well if they said that they would be objectively wrong. An AI puts no thought into it's creation, despite the misleading name. It simply is able to approximate an imitation of the artwork it's trained on.
Boooo, that will never compare to the personal satisfaction of honing a craft.
Edit: machine generation can be fun but I promise it's not as fulfilling as finding something you love doing purely for the sake of it and watching your progress over years.
Yeah honing the craft of which key words to use
Tbh I've had plenty of fun with that too
Edit: downvoted why? Think I'm hypocritical? Or should it be nsfw?