• known_unknown@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    AI images may may or may not be art, but it will never be YOUR art, any more than the art of artists I employ is my art. It just isn’t.

    However, I think any AI argument that doesn’t mention capitalism as a factor is incapably reductive. As other commenters indicate, even very physically restricted individuals can and will create art.

    Because they often have the means that many under capitalism do not: they often have time because they aren’t under full time employment. They have extra mental energy, the “spoons”.

    Once again, the issue is ultimately a deflection from systemic issues that the upper class insist they aren’t intentionally worsening 🫠