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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind [Jess Weatherbed, The Verge]
Personally, I think this is gonna backfire pretty damn hard on Adobe - artistsā already distrust and hate them as it is, and Procreate, their chief competition, earned a lot of artistsā goodwill by publicly rejecting gen-AI some time ago. All this will likely do is push artists to jump ship, viewing Adobe as actively hostile to their continued existence.
On a wider note, it seems pretty clear to me Alexandru Costinās drank the technological determinist Kool-Aid and has come to believe autoplagās dominance is inevitable. Heās not the first person Iāve seen drink that particular Kool-Aid, heās almost certainly not the last, and I suspect that the mass-drinking of that Kool-Aidās fueling the tech industryās relentless doubling-down on gen-AI. A doubling-down I expect will bite them in the ass quite spectacularly.
The hubris is almost impressive in itself. Thereās not a single technology in human history that has managed to kill every art form not using it. Digital art didnāt do it, photography, pencil, movable type printing, nib pens, oil paints, scraffito, probably not even the invention of currency did it. He thinks autoplag of all things will?
i suppose when this guy speaks of artists, he means people making art as their primary source of income. not to say that those people arenāt artists as valid as any others. but heās saying if you donāt use ai to push out stuff ever faster, you wonāt make it. fuck taking your time to get inspired and have it mean something, just give us the soulless garbage to sell our products already.
I somewhat assumed so based on the usual corporate ghoul definition of āsuccessfulā. Thatās why I included currency as something without which artists have managed to make a living since its invention. That particular example may be arguable, but being a successful artist is not and will not be predicated entirely on how fast one can crank out ācontentā. How many movies do the wealthiest directors put out per year?
I mean, he is their VP of Autoplag, so I imagine heās got even more reason to believe than the average MBA. That doesnāt undermine your point, but I think the fact that adobe has appointed a VP of Autoplag should be part of the story to begin with, rather than being assumed. Did they ever have a VP of blockchain? Or a VP of copyright fraud?
the boot just does not understand why the face under it is complaining