> I'm telling you that I would directly benefit. I love creating content, but I can't draw. This, as you put it, orthogonal. The question is not whether some s

> I'm telling you that I would directly benefit. I love creating content, but I can't draw. This, as you put it, orthogonal. The question is not whether some small set of individuals, such as yourself stand to gain or not. That is in fact what I surmise a very few will actually gain, on the whole this is not a boon. Other orthogonal arguments could be made regarding other orthogonal avenues you have brought up e.g. Javascript being good (terrible for the environment, in part responsible for a large amount of e-waste). Bringing the term luddite into the equation rhymes something with sensationalist.... Being not OK with inappropriate technological uses is not synonymous with being anti technology, tools have purpose, but if you murder someone with a knife and then claim people are luddite for decrying your actions, because progress and being able to cut things... >These tools and platforms have democratized access. Or at least have created the illusion of such. > I don't have the time to learn. No pain no gain, as the saying goes. I don't think this will even be as useful to yourself as you think, you will as you put it, need to still be good, but your unwillingness to put effort into something you otherwise claim to value indicates you are unlikely to benefit at all, your work is likely to be subpar compared to those of your peers. It's OK to not be good at everything, and rely on others, that's the foundation of a society. But claiming you will benefit from something that a tool does is like claiming that you will become rich from hammers putting nails into wood - sure we benefit from not smashing the nails into wood ourselves, maybe society benefits from better constructed houses, even, but the hammer itself does not make you a carpenter or even a construction worker. It will not benefit you in that fashion. Which is my point, the tool in question does not democratize making movies, I bring relevant issues in the realm of current video distribution, and you want to claim it is orthogonal... I'm not sure you understand just how much it won't benefit you... Another way to think about it, if something is a problem, e.g. "I cannot draw", think "Maybe it's much worse than that", and you might begin to uncover the root causes of your issue. Acting prematurely, much like premature optimization, is the root of all evils, if you will. To bring it back to topic, if you create something like an image AI without properly examining what it is you are trying to accomplish, you are liable to create more harm than good. A lot of tech is like this, knee jerk scratch-an-itch, and it shows. Not an Apple fan, but they are a good example in industry, they took time to design well and the result is a more stable, more power efficient system. Android, as much as I love the platform, suffers from a million knee jerk decisions across industry, resulting in a much higher proportion of digital garbage, some virtual some literal landfill.