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Anti-AI solidarity
(thelemmy.club)
Lime Bar @limebar@mastodon.social
I am a little shocked at the lack of solidarity I see between artists working in different mediums wrt genAI.
Musicians who would never use it to make music use it to make cover art
Graphic artists reach for it to make music over their videos
Writers use it to illustrate their articles
And, considering software development an art, many use it to create web sites or apps to host their art.
None of this is necessary. All of this is harmful to the other artists.
Collaborate ffs.
Stop it.
Aug 09, 2026, 12:17 AM
What programs have you written?
I was triggered by that statement too and about to throw a rant, but I think they mean it like "creating a webpage", using stuff like wordpress and the like, because they're an artist who wants to show off their portfolio or something.
There's a lot of "DIY" that abstracts away the actual programming part, so others can just build what they need easily.
Bro stop, it's literally my career because it was the only thing that felt easy to me (I tried a bunch of stuff before), like it's a lot easier and cheaper to learn on your own than most crafts and imo it should be even easier. I don't take this as offense, I take it as a compliment that we are one of the few careers where people still have enough power over their tools to genuinely improve them and enough solidarity to put in the effort of making it more and more accessible to others, be it by making simpler tools, or writing tutorials and guides for free, or taking the time to answer even the noobiest questions. I want to see more and more comments like this.
Im a software developer by trade. Originally for a msp combining several companies' backups and Outlook info (locally hosted and 365) into a single SQL backed dashboard, now under an NDA.