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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 do music and other art. I did use early AI to make a few music videos because I liked the jankyness of it all. How it was strange and surreal - like a dream. If anything, it was more of an experiment in a medium that wasn't ready.
I don't use any AI today except to mock it. I reject it as much as possible.
Yeah, there was a period there where it was super interesting to explore and learn about. As a technology, it still is! But as a corporate product, it's the essence of everything that's wrong with capitalism - no real value in most cases, manufactured needs, embrace-extend-extinguish, and no down about to hit the hard downslope on the enshittification curve too.