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As a human artist I don't feel the same as you, and I somehow doubt that you care all that much about what we think anyways. You already made up your mind about the tech, so don't feel the need to protect us from "a tool of capital [sic]" to fortify your argument.

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My opinion is based on my interactions with my friends who are artists. I admit freely to caring less about what people I don't know say, in the absence of additional evidence.

Among working human artists your opinion is in the minority. Most professionals are not a fan of this.

Yeah because their wage is inflated. Photographers were mad about digital cameras too. Womp womp.

Inflated is not an apt descriptor of artist wages, those are known to be low.

If you're independent selling paintings, sure. Designing packaging or something commercial? 4 hours of work a week for nearly 6 figures. I know a couple graphic designers and they don't do shit for what they're paid.

You should probably tell the other millions of artists busting out 60+ hour workweek in industry for half that price where these jobs are. That could solve this problem overnight.

Manufacturing/packaging.

And how are they different than the millions of factory workers on a line?

In a cosmic sense, no. Most of us are slaving away at some job when we would rather be doing something else but are bound by the need to fund lodging.

But in a more practical sense yes. There's not much personal nor logistical progression to make pushing pencils. Meanwhile, art is a craft that you can dedicate your life to improving and educating others on. It can be a career instead of merely a job to do.

And horse wages (some oats) were low when the car was invented. Yet they were still inflated. There used to be more horses than humans in this country. Couldn't even earn their keep when the Ford Model T came along.

You're comparing human artists to horses? Seriously?

It's not surprising, they prefer machines to people and call humans "stochastic parrots". The more humans are compared to animals, the more justified they feel writing them off as an expense and doing away with them.

Do you make your living as an artist?

You've done the same thing in this comment so what makes you think you're the superior specimen?

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