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But god forbid if you actually want to make money from your art; the way things are going, it's getting near impossible.
I, like 99% of people who enjoy creating stuff, am never going to make money from it. Worrying about that 1% of people is just insane, and really, the small fraction of those people who truly get to be creative, rather than slaving at producing someone's corporate vision, are going to be fine anyway.
This reply that the other person also made is just crazy to me. Isn't lemmy, by and large, anti-capitalist? Why should the ability to make money off something even matter? Are you upset that people who really enjoy laying bricks will be mostly out of work if 3D-printed houses or some other technology replaces traditional building? Technology that obsoletes jobs is always a good thing for society; if the fruits of that technology are only enjoyed by a tiny fraction of society, that is a problem with how society is organised, not with technology.
There is a difference between growing an enterprise that extracts unfair value from your workers, and an indie studio owned by the artists.
Yeah, many differences, one of which is that the further employs far more people. Another is that the latter is not going to dissolve itself to be replaced by AI when the former fires artists to do that.
There is already very little market for the kind of art we all care about, so maybe we should worry less about the marketability of art.
Go to your local anime convention you’ll find tones of local artists that ask for money for their labour. The non corpo market will not be adversed online.
What makes you think those artists are going to be replaced by AI though? I don't think people who buy art off a local artist are gonna go "you know what, let's just print off this Midjourney shit"? I don't at all.
I actually don't think most people put art on their walls at all. The people who do, value a human connection in the art, not just something that looks cool (if you don't care about the ai look).
I didn’t say that, we’re on the same page here ❤️
Oh sorry lol
This festival still needs to be found.