It’s incredible the amount of hate some marxists have for artists.
I'm guessing you would have liked me to respond to the above with:
Fuck off.
You have reactionary sensibilities and are upset being called out on your underlying sentiment, for which you had several oppurtunities to clarify but you refuse to explain yourself.
No one asked you to respond and since you did you could have asked to clarify if you didn't understand what is going on.
Like, for example, why would I hate artists? I could make another educated guess why you think so here but then you will use the same excuse again that you have so far - you didn't say the reason explicitly and then will refuse to stake a claim.
It’s absolutely baffling that you can just claim “the exaltation of the artist, preferred artistry, and those with discerning tastes against the unwashed masses” like anyone is saying that artists are superior, when in fact they are just workers like everyone else.
The above was a literally a response to someone claiming commerical mass market movies are not art despite someone else explaining they are for masses of folks, in the context of everything that was claimed elsewhere here by others too about the "specialness" of art. What is that but gatekeeping? What about the gatekeeping to keep art to those who only have the means or time to do so? What about allusions to the metaphysical quality of creativity? Oh right, you refuse to make a claim.
Not once have you explained why the socialised automation of every other labour is acceptable but not the artisan, and how that exception would not be reactionary. Your silence is deafening. That's not solidarity.
Marxism ain't a club you try to prove how proleteriat you are.
And we have not even taken historical materialism into account. Because ultimately this is not amount just making art. This about making art and being paid to do so.
Art which has been paid for, since classes have been a thing (ie most of human civilisation), have overwhelmingly represented the various culture milieu of those who have extracted value from others' labour. The history of paid art has overwhelmingly been the sensibilities of the upper classes - even if the actual work was done by the working classes. And now to allude to the idea that AI under captialism changes that overall relationship is disingenious at best: making the anti-AI art generation argument = "pro-worker" the real absurdity.
And to make an exception for automation of the artisanal worker at the expense of every other worker is the "superiority" you yourself have refused to explain.