From a more... pessimistic/optomistic point of view (I'm really not sure which applies here, it depends how you look at it) It is also about a culture with absolutely no safety net, where AI and increased automation moving into someones field (in this case, graphic design work) isn't just "oh, less people will need my services" and more "My income will completely disappear and I will be broke/homeless faster than I can possibly learn something else fast enough to compete with the omnipotent AI".

The way to make these transitions less aggressive on everyone is to not have it tied directly to whether or not someone can afford to eat.

>This isn’t really about AI, it’s about a culture where threats and coercion in service of one’s own ideology have become normalised

This has always been a thing.

Except that corporations are not people (well, except one place). A power imbalance between corporations and humans is enough to justify a lot of non-violent behavior which may be considered non-ethical to fellow people, but totally fine towards a corpo. Boycott is one of such traditional ways.

Btw. notice how boycott is often perceived as ok to good, while "cancel culture" as bad, while both are identical if the target is corporation.

Imo, artists boycotting any corporation for any reason at all, even if the Ouija board told them so, are completely justified.

Thats true. This story makes me think artists are spoiled and entitled little shits, which isn’t fair to all of them of cause.

I love this, what a pleasant take./

I dislike AI because it represents the state's power to automatically surveil mass populations and automate everything from labor it's use of force in warfare.

Please, do go on about how the folks who find the aesthetic around that repugnant in a way that hand-drawn-chalkboards are the "real threat".

No it's about people thinking that I should care about their business when they clearly do not. When you use AI in these lazy ways it's clear that you just don't care.