LainTrain
Because you don't care about making art, so you choose comfort and financial safety.
Yeah, I choose to eat, so do you, evidently.
But my choices on how I earn that bread were more limited than yours, again - evidently.
Beyond that, I choose not to make assumptions about you or your life like you've done with mine.
Also lol "comfort and financial safety". No. Not for most people in most of this world. It's more like survival vs not survival.
So how does this have nothing to do with privilege? It literally is what privilege is.
Telling poors to learn art is like telling someone to bet everything on starting a business. It's a good idea only if you're rich, because if you fail - and to learn you must fail sometimes - you can try again, but the working class doesn't get the luxury of second chances.
You're talking about outsourcing art, but then complain about who actually make art.
No, I'm talking about generating art from a prompt, I have no issues with people who make art obviously, as long as they don't have an issue with those who lack the resources to develop the skills and instead use AI to put their ideas into action or polish existing ones.
If you'd like to change my mind, show me a few professionally successful present-day working class artists.
This means they:
- Make most of their income from their work
- Most active period this or past decade and they are no older than 40.
- Working class background, so no artists in family at all, no industry connections they didn't make themselves, no nepotism etc.
Also lol, of course I care about making art, why else would I be even talking about it, much less pointing out that generative AI accidentally or not - corrects a class injustice?
If I saw no value in making art, why would I ever consider it an injustice that the working class cannot enjoy it?
I make music in my spare time whenever I can and have for years, and no I don't and would never use any generative AI tools for the music itself, nor do I even sample any other music, and I think I've even improved at it somewhat despite a lack of basically any education on the subject matter beyond a few guides and YouTube videos on music theory here and there. It's a highly rewarding hobby.
Realistically though, that 'whenever' is simply not enough time to create anything professional and polished enough for me to sell and for it to appeal to anyone besides myself and whatever loved one is unfortunate enough to be subjected to it.
or since there are FOSS AI models that are free as in free beer it allows everyone to access the benefits of the privileged - i.e. those who can specialized in fields like arts that aren't conducive to making enough money out of the gate to survive as a working class person
Thank you! And yeah you said it well.
I might check it out at some point, but I'm not really into mythology tbh, I think the only thing remotely close to that that I've ever consumed is some of the videos from Overly Sarcastic Productions on YT.
I also wonder where (if anywhere) they teach classical greek myths at school. The literature classes we had in high school - other than Shakespeare - mostly focused on modern period literature from the 19th century onwards (with the most recent book probably being To Kill A Mockingbird ofc and the earliest Silas Marner)
I guess that's kinda like what's particularly astounding to me about the downvotes. This is not even a matter of privilege and resources, it's simply a matter of: Why would you expect anyone to go out of their way to look up fairly obscure greek myths, unless they were specifically into fairly obscure greek myths? And I already think considering I actively engage with content about mythology even rarely as it may be I imagine most people know much less.
Heck I had the lucky opportunity for the joy of explaining The Illiad and The Odyssey to my girlfriend recently, who had literally no clue what those even were or that they existed.
Right now I'm really into space stuff. It's extremely unlikely that if I asked any random person, including myself from like slightly over a week ago, what ORB RATE and INRTL positions on the FDAI switch on Panel 13 do in the Apollo CSM, that they would know what the heck I'm talking about. So I would never make that assumption. It's just kinda baffling to do so.
We cannot hate on people for not knowing what is unreasonable for anyone but an enthusiast to know. That in itself is refusing to think properly, it is anti-intellectualism, plain and simple. "Ooga Grog no know thing, means Grog bad!" is an insane way to operate, it's reeks of a regressive and unsystemic view of the world.
I can understand, but really, though? Why would you expect anyone to know something so niche?
You should be grateful I'm actually happy to learn about it, and that you had the opportunity to tell me about it, spreading knowledge, especially on something as cool as classical literature and history is a good thing.
I didn't know of the myth, can I have a billion dollars now? I promise I won't even traumatize Bill Shatner by uncaringly shaking champagne around him like some kind of personified satire.
Edit: Why am I downvoted for a joke?
Fair play, TIL.
I figured it was something from Greek mythology (probably), but I don't have that particular kind of special interest so I never looked into it.
As to your concern I imagine the vast majority know of it from the movie, not an obscure greek myth. Like surely you understand that's pretty niche compared to a multimillion dollar blockbuster?
EDIT: why am I downvoted for admitting I didn't know something? Not knowing something and admitting it, even being proud of having the opportunity to learn something new is always a good thing. It is something we should encourage in people. Fucking dotworld I swear man.
You gotta respect the man for how much he seems to relish in being pure evil. Prometheus like the movie, about the bald dudes who created life? And the ultimate artificial lifeform as a weapon that wiped em all out in the end? That's a masterclass in Saturday morning ass villainy this Jeff practices.
Life is active thought. I don't space out to music at all, I don't "space out" period, I stay engaged actively with the world.
I agree with basically everything you said, but let's be real - I'm not the one doing the tearing down ITT.
The stoics are morons mostly. Yes I have ADHD, and I'm fully medicated for it, thanks.