No harm meant to your personal friends, but it's not that you know a cross section of artists, its that the tiny number you know are statistical anomalies.The weird thing is, almost all the artists I've known are either excessively humble, or reasonably modest about their art.
Maybe it's just the ones that are more arrogant just make so much more noise they're vastly more visible?
Entirely possible. I think all but one of them were deeply committed Christians.No harm meant to your personal friends, but it's not that you know a cross section of artists, its that the tiny number you know are statistical anomalies.
Well then, you're probably already dealing with the percent of the percent of artists, so to speak.Entirely possible. I think all but one of them were deeply committed Christians.
The weird thing is, almost all the artists I've known are either excessively humble, or reasonably modest about their art.
Maybe it's just the ones that are more arrogant just make so much more noise they're vastly more visible?
Well they are either from or where taught by Californians, so there’s your problem right there.might be a regional thing, a lot of the cal arts students I've met have been unbearable assholes.
I am going to take a guess and say you probably only associate with the tiny tiny minority of artists who are conservative. And also not famous.The weird thing is, almost all the artists I've known are either excessively humble, or reasonably modest about their art.
Maybe it's just the ones that are more arrogant just make so much more noise they're vastly more visible?
Mostly. I've known a few others.I am going to take a guess and say you probably only associate with the tiny tiny minority of artists who are conservative. And also not famous.
Over the past year, artificial intelligence enjoyed its mainstream breakthrough.
The instant success of ChatGPT and follow-up releases of other large language model-based tools kickstarted what many believe is a new revolution.
By now it is clear that AI offers endless possibilities. At the same time, however, it has ignited many new worries. Copyright holders, in particular, are concerned that their work is being used as training models but without permission.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim at AI Freeloading * TorrentFrea
Science Fiction and Fantasy writers take offense with AI models that exploit authors who share their work without DRM and free of charge.torrentfreak.com
Sci-Fi Authors Then: The singularity is going to be awesome! We're going to have AI doing human things! Synthetic PEOPLE, man! It's gonna be like Cortana and shit! It's gonna be like Iain Banks' Culture where we mostly just sit around eating grapes like Eloi while Artificial Intelligences do everything for us, including living our actual lives! Man, wouldn't that be nice? I can just kick back in my post-scarcity utopia while AI construct literal paradises all around me for my own hedonistic enjoyment.
Sci-Fi Authors Now: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneone! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You can't replace me with a machine! Stupid techbro Elon Musk manchildren are SCRAPING ALL MY STORIES AND FEEDING THEM TO CHATBOTS! THIS IS PLAGIARISM! I NEED MY HACK WRITING TO PAY RENT! I WILL LITERALLY GO BROKE IF I CAN'T SELL MY BAD EROTICA ON AMAZON! I CAN'T DO A REAL JOB, I HAVE LUMBAGO! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Take Aim at AI Freeloading * TorrentFrea
Science Fiction and Fantasy writers take offense with AI models that exploit authors who share their work without DRM and free of charge.torrentfreak.com
Sci-Fi Authors Then: The singularity is going to be awesome! We're going to have AI doing human things! Synthetic PEOPLE, man! It's gonna be like Cortana and shit! It's gonna be like Iain Banks' Culture where we mostly just sit around eating grapes like Eloi while Artificial Intelligences do everything for us, including living our actual lives! Man, wouldn't that be nice? I can just kick back in my post-scarcity utopia while AI construct literal paradises all around me for my own hedonistic enjoyment.
Sci-Fi Authors Now: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneone! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You can't replace me with a machine! Stupid techbro Elon Musk manchildren are SCRAPING ALL MY STORIES AND FEEDING THEM TO CHATBOTS! THIS IS PLAGIARISM! I NEED MY HACK WRITING TO PAY RENT! I WILL LITERALLY GO BROKE IF I CAN'T SELL MY BAD EROTICA ON AMAZON! I CAN'T DO A REAL JOB, I HAVE LUMBAGO! HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!
Sturgeon law is what is mainly talked about.It's whether or not the story has soul, whether or not the writer has poured their heart into it, and that's something that no AI can ever do.
Most writers don't either, but that's why Sturgeon's Law exists.