alt Hacker NewsThe most jarring thing for me is that artists tend to be the most "communally oriented, socially forward" group of people. I've definitely spent my fair time around them.
As soon as tools came about that socialized their skill, opened it to everyone, they immediately and violently opposed it. Which is totally understandable, except when your core ideology you have been pushing for your whole life is to socialize everything.
The hypocrisy is so suffocating that it was like a 9.0 earthquake in my moral landscape.
And yes, before you come at my throat, free local image generation tools get no hatred exemption.
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Being community oriented is easy when it basically means recruiting new customers (ie listeners). And though some of those become competitors (ie learn to play an instrument) the process is long and slow and arduous and so very few actually follow through.
But anybody can buy a Suno subscription in no time at all.
Nothing was preventing anyone with internet access or a computer from learning to create art before.