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Ale (doing Comics!)
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"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."
Pq democratizar a arte não é toda pessoa ter um desenho bonitinho feito em segundos, democratizar arte é toda pessoa ter tempo e saúde pra aprender e produzir arte se quiser mas principalmente ter condição pra pensar e se relacionar com arte com introspecção.
March 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Turning the act of creation into a product is the opposite of democratization, because if some people can pay to be "artists", then other people can be priced out of it.
I've argued with family over the years about this, with them constantly hitting refrains that "new technology will always create new jobs!" when I mention automation replacing people/causing poverty
The new job it's creating is "Artist" and it doesn't pay shit because capitalism can't value art
No matter what price you put on a piece of art, the price itself becomes art as it's attached to the art as part of its experience.
The price can't be separate or cleanly quantified.
Games are worth both $0 and $100 per copy. Zero b/c infinite free copies, $100 because immense work to make.
Yes!
Like in the pandemic, when working from home people suddenly had more hours (and energy) for hobbies by eliminating the commute, and hobbies crafts and art all flourished.
The people pushing AI-art now were pushing for the return to offices despite the pandemic. Real art is a threat to them.
And it’s not about who can make and profit from art…it looks like there’s a deliberate effort to make-sure mental pressure and stress is inflicted on working people. Financial stress, not enough free time, recreation activities must be expensive, demonizing relaxation…
…and for no good reason.
What AI is doing is the opposite of democratization, because it changes the gate from being based of skill to instead be based of wealth
The people using ‘AI’ tools to create counterfeit art have no conception of the pleasure of creation. They simply believe that they will somehow be able to monetise the junk they get spewed out. It’s capitalist thinking, as opposed to anti-art thinking.
Also the free software or the fact you can do with scraping stuff together has already done the version of democratizing aren't plus tutorials. Tech/business bros are used to gate keeping knowledge and not working on a real skill with effort.
eh. i think we put too much emphasis on people having time and means and not enough emphasis on people having direction, open communities, and motivation.
I'd like to raise the Exhibition on Screen film series as a good example of this. It makes great art from around the world accessible without the need to travel, often in greater detail than one could realistically see in person, and with lots of accessible yet in-depth contextual information.
Art is saying something unique about the world. Maybe AI can enable this, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
If you can make art with the camera, you can make it with AI. If you can't, that's a skill issue.
It will be interesting to take AI to artistic levels when you get an artist who can do so, so it may indeed be a skill issue. Plus, of course, AI is still in its infancy, so to speak.
I think both are cool, but definitely think we should prioritize the latter!