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Big-Faithlessness573 t1_izr8y1g wrote

Reply to comment by petermobeter in This subreddit has a pretty serious anti-capitalist bias by Sieventer

> the phrase “seize the means of production” is basically saying “artists should control the image-generating A.I. rather than media corporations”

Nobody should control AI, especially not the artists who are so bitter about it on Twitter/other social media platforms. It is again a group of people controlling something. The difference here is that those group of people are "artists" instead of a "corporation".

A.I should be available for anyone and everyone to use. Otherwise, it could turn into a scenario where these "artists" might set arbitrary conditions for the AI use and won't allow anyone who isn't a professional artist to use it.

And again, what will be the use of "artists" in the future if anyone can generate the type of art they want using A.I ?

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AndromedaAnimated t1_izrtbfo wrote

The use of artists will be to create art.

As a former artist-in-spe who has great drawing and painting skill but was not accepted at art universities for being “not novel or original enough” (yes, this is the reason I was given) I think the same judgement will soon apply to all AI art. It’s not original. Haha.

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Big-Faithlessness573 t1_izs0mjm wrote

> The use of artists will be to create art.

Yeah sure. I was only confused/bothered by the word "control" which the redditor (to whom I replied to) mentioned. I was like, " why do you wanna control it ? "

Professional artists can use it and average people can use it too. Nobody should be the gatekeepers of this technology whether they are corporations or a group of people. That was my point.

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