This is also why I have about negative sympathy for artists who are crying about AI taking their jobs. Programmers (specifically AI researchers) looked at thei

This is also why I have about negative sympathy for artists who are crying about AI taking their jobs. Programmers (specifically AI researchers) looked at their 300K+ a year salaries and embraced the idea of automating away the work despite how lucrative it would be to continue to spin one's wheels on it. The culture of open source is strong among SWEs, even one's who would lose millions of unrealized gains/earnings as a result of embracing it. Artists looked at their 30K+ a year salaries from drawing furry hentai on furaffinity and panic at the prospect of losing their work, to the point of making whole political protest movements against AI art. Artists have also never defended open source en mass, and are often some of the first to defend crappy IP laws. Why be a luddite over something so crappy to defend? (edit to respond) I grew up poor as shit and got myself out of that with code. I don't need a lecture about appearing as an elitist. I'm more than "poking fun" at them - I'm calling them out for lying about their supposed left-wing sensibilities. Artists have postured as being the "vanguard" of the left wing revolution for awhile (i.e. situationalist international and may 68), but the moment that they had a chance to implement their tactics in the art world (open source AI art), they shunned it and cried and embraced ludditism. Compare this to the world of AI right now. AI has somehow "legally circumvented" copyright laws and we are living in a de-facto post-copyright world. Huggingface and Richard Stallman as an entity/community and individual have done more to democratize access to and give the poors real access to social and economy mobility than any artists have done in the last 10 years, anywhere in the entire world. You should embrace shit jobs going away, especially in a world where the speed to "re-skill" is often on the orders of hours when AI is involved. I am pointing out that the well-paid AI professional had much to lose and embraced losing it anyway, while the furry artist acted greedily over their pretty awful situation.