1. Wanting to end the penny (still did it illegally)

2. This (pending legality)

No tech bro has tried to sell me ai art. No tech bro is knocking on my door asking me to buy AI music.

I wish it was as easy to point to as that. Instead they are just trying to slowly poison the pool and then claim “see, you’ve been drinking AI the whole time!”

• It pops up in art feeds all the time, and they get offended when called out on it. - It invades any kind of festival you can think of, like hackathons, and they argue with judges over why AI is banned (they just try to sneak it in anyway)
• you’ll see AI fliers for local events and they say “its just a quick ad” when pointed out to, despite these kinds of festivals trying to attract artists (but won’t pay one for a design) .
• and of course, anytime I look into a job, I have to be reminded that “you gotta learn AI, it’s the future! Don’t get left behind” as if my past 10 years of experience is invalidated by a slop generator that wouldn’t survive a QA pass nor art critique (“just wait a few more months!” Said every few months for 4 years).

I sure do wish it was just naive kids gushing over it. Perhaps as someone in the creative field I simply am destined to hear it a lot more since it’s become a trillion dollar racket that the powers that be so desperately want to say works. It’s well past the “I can just ignore this” stage for me.

If you’re arguing for diversity then you shouldn’t mind AI music.

well we come full circle back to the main topic and hit the paradox of tolerance. Someone trying to claim “Spotify, Apple Music, and Streaming in general is over” is not someone trying to embrace diversity and carve out a new road to potentially explore. They are stating an intent to conquer and extinguish.

I don’t have a problem with the concept of AI music, but I do with the kinds of people it seems to attract. So yeah, I can’t really support someone who simply sees art as an algorithm to “solve” and dismisses human made music as “obsolete”.

you should indiscriminately support it through government programs, local initiatives, and places of learning.

I do. But it’s not like I fund all art equally. I play a lot more video games than I listen t soundtracks, and I watch a lot more animation than I do plays. Art is diverse and you pick and choose what to consume or make for yourself.

That’s all I was saying when I said “I wouldn’t call myself a music guy”

There’s other art than music. And genres within music. I wouldn’t call myself a “music guy” but I do support other forms of art.

You say you love the art form but literal artist dying on the vine since the day I was born.

welcome to a niche, I guess. I’m a part of quite a few of those. Turns out my wallet isn’t big enough to carry an industry. or my rent. Sorry bro.

Maybe in another timeline I’m a super rich dude and I can single-handedly support independent art financially.

Also completely misses the entire idea of fucking culture. How do you get a taste in “what you like”? YOU LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS SHOW YOU!!! That’s culture: SHARED experiences.

Goddamn. The kinds of people rooting for this idea where you only listen to what you like are definitely the same ones who think the best way to meet a date is through as app. The only surprising part is that the silent majority aren’t angry enough to break their apathy yet.

How we describing “significantly” here?

Only way I stay sane in an age of insanity.

I don’t think he thinks he’ll go to prison at this point. He spent his entire life avoiding it.

Nah, screw you. I’m not the one constantly thinking about a dead dude. People can’t even admit who killed him.

If you’re so focused on team politics that you can’t even imagine “your side” killing someone you like, you’re a lost cause. People like that will not help us at all long term.

Its the celebrity effect. I even saw it with otherwise respected individuals like Neil DeGrasse Tyson. People fundamentally cannot understand that a person who is a subject matter expert in one are may be completely out of their element in another area. Add in social media letting then (intentionally or not) amplify their most mundane thoughts and boom. You’re ah “influencer” on any topic you choose to talk about.

Joe Rogan seemed different because he had the sense to bring other smart people on and let them talk. But that mask slipped off over the years.

You’re mostly right. But things do matter. No one wanted to go to war. And the consequences of going to war was so bad that Cheney didn’t even try to run for president. Literally no one in America wanted to be involved in Iran, and now Trump’s cult is melting down as their gas prices explode. This absolutely will affect midterms.

Suck that change for the people is slow, but it happens. Actions still have consequences.

Libertarianism makes sense in a culture where you feel markets will keep themselves honest.

Reality , of course, is disappointing and I was a stupid young man for believing that.

Not necessarily. They believed whatever their podcast host on Twitch said to believe, and they were paid to say “believe in Trump”. Or at best “both sides are the same it doesn’t matter”

Democrats meanwhile did nothing because they are extremely slow with adapting to how the youth consume news.

And if they try to not disclose and get caught, they get fined.

The idea isn’t perfection, because scams always exist. It’s to make it super risky to attempt to scam and discourage the largest platforms from doing it.

Wealth doesn’t trickle down, but losses do. Sadly, AAA studios collapsing will affect indies’ abilities to get funding , so expect to feel some pain there too.

This is already being felt these last few years as many gaming publishers shifted to funding AI.

Pretty much my problem. The salesman is telling the carpenter how to do their craft. And the boss goes along with it because its more profitable to say you’re using a hammer than it is to actually build and fix stuff.

It’d be deliberate corporate sabotage if I didn’t believe they were so stupid.

Thousands of people needing to solve the same problem over and over is inefficient

Sure, we have a name for that: Not-invented-Here (NIH) Syndrome. AI is not solving that Inefficiency.

Or start applying proven solution

Let me know when you find them, please.

Don’t worry we’ll museums for him. These days, instead of newspaper headlines and TV footage we’ll have wall of unhinged tweets and AI propaganda posted on the official POTUS feed

Based approach. Put money on the table and let them look at the market themselves. Worst case, you get a good deal.