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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
"I'm an artiste, machines shouldn't do what I do, those other folks have it easy." repeat for every group thinking of every other group.
I'm struggling with this as a software dev. I don't think writing software is "art", but it is creative.
Why should it be acceptable for me to use it and other fields not?
This is after coming to terms that LLM's are here to stay for the tech industry. Despite all the very real and valid negatives of it, it writes decent code if you babysit it well enough. Even after OpenAI and Anthropic collapse I don't see it going away.