Yeah we all hear the main arguments... AI is bad because of slop content, stealing from creators, brain rot & brain damage, privacy concerns and most importantly... how billionaires are just using it for their own selfish reasons
But I'm asking about YOU 🫵 personally. The individual. What do you really think about AI? Do you care or are you indifferent? Has it actually affected your day to day life?
Ok but what's the gameplan here for artists exactly? Cat's out of the bag, I don't think it's realistic that big AI companies are going to dole out royalties to millions of random artists around the world they stole from. Even if there's political will to do this how would you even begin to calculate which artist gets which slice of the cake.
The only other course of action within a capitalist framework is literally just ludditism, which might not even be a bad idea short term but in the end it's still a reactionary position even if it's grounded in real material concerns.