> You don’t go to The Met or the Guggenheim to look at content. Actually, a lot of art that people go to see, was actually produced by artists cranking out “co

> You don’t go to The Met or the Guggenheim to look at content. Actually, a lot of art that people go to see, was actually produced by artists cranking out “content”. Leonardo da Vinci hired a bunch of assistants to help him crank out content that his patrons wanted. This is one of the things that make it hard to figure out if a painting is actually by da Vinci or one of his students. Michaelangelo didn’t paint the Sistine chapel out of some artistic compulsion. Rather he was paid by the Pope to crank out enough content to cover the ceiling. Artists have been producing “content” for their patrons since time immemorial. The big change now is that instead of people paid a large commission or retainer by a wealthy individual or family, am they are now paid a tiny bit by a large number of people via ads.