tl;dr to hell with all anti-AI nazi boomers and double-fuck digital "artist" sperglers too incompetent to even work at a gas station
I have no patience left for people who can't read their own native language as high-school graduated (and often also college-educated!) grown-ass adults.
Just the other day in a stream, I mentioned that it must suck to try and make money online selling digital art in the age of AI, that if selling art is what you wish as your chosen profession (roflmao good luck!) it'd probably be much more profitable to create art-forms that can't be copy-pasted or, like sculpting marble statues or selling paintings to museums or architectural engineering or performance art. But the knuckle-dragging troglodyte jackass hosting that stream apparently saw only the word "AI" which triggered their mental illness and they mind-blanked all my other plain English writing then proceeded to reflexively spaz out on me like "it's so not cool at all to suggest using AI to an artist REEE REEEEE REEEEE!!"
Nigga bitch what the fuck. That is not what I said. At all. I'm so sick of Netizens hallucinating words that just aren't there. Something Awful was right all along: the Internet makes you stupid.
Instead of trying to be nice and apologizing for THEIR stupid stubborn refusal to perform basic reading comprehension of plain English in the smallest of words, it WOULD have been far more compassionate and less enabling to double-down on the tough love and deliver several swift kick-in-the-ass clue-batting wake-up calls:
AI is here to stay.
It's only going to get more powerful, and quickly. I could upload, right now, AI videos of Donald Trump being crowned by a crying Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton paying Mossad for tied up and gagged little children from the back of an Israeli Defense Force humvee, and Ben Shapiro licking a nude Abby Shapiro's asshole, all completely indistinguishable from real pr0n, generated FOR FREE by ONE giggling 4chan troll in his spare time. Imagine what deepfakes can be made by THE EXPERTS!! Only drooling donkeys still trust anything they see on TV, the news, the medical industry, or climatologists nowadays.
You can't do anything about AI -- you don't stand a chance against Elon Musk or Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or all the other trillionaire tech-oligarch who ARE developing and disseminating AI, so shitcan your stubborn teen-brained non-conformist rebelliousness.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em -- adapt or die which, is a central principle of evolution.
Speaking of evolution science, no digital artist (lol what's the matter? too dumb for college? too poor for university or a trade school? too socially-retarded to flip burgers, stock shelves, deliver pizza, push a few knobs and levers on an espresso machine? too weak to dig ditches for your local mortuary, chop meat for your local butcher, cut down branches and trim hedges and mow lawns, work on a farm or ranch shoveling pig shit and detasseling corn? pursue a career in welding or construction?) is smarter than even the dumbest scientist, so stop being so mouthy, learn your place, stay in your lane, sit down and shut up, you have no power over anyone, you need to be put through basic military training to get the humbling experience of realizing all you deserve is a kick in the stomach.
History is replete with examples of new technology replacing entire industries -- did you know that, before the invention of the refrigerator, there were tens of thousands hired to take boats to the Arctic or Antarctic, carve out slabs of ice, bring it back to America or Europe or wherever, and sell those ice slabs for putting in insulated boxes for people to keep their food cold? how do you think all those workers felt when their whole careers were obsoleted by one invention? and how many of them starved to death by stubbornly resisting getting with the times by being grognard luddites when they could have joined everyone else in pursuing a whole different career like everybody else does when, say, whatever they were trained for suddenly isn't a viable career path anymore? how many are still making a comfortable living proofreading newspapers, news magazines, or phone books, do you think?)
So, like, you might wanna re-consider your anti-AI nazi boomer stance, kiddo. You're not gonna make it, give up and give in, save yourself the heart-ache and grow up and be real.
And you might want to try and make money in some much more stable and profitable way than trying to sell intangible nonsense online (that even toddlers can figure out how to copy or screenshot and paste all over plebbit and tiktok), try trading something real like actual skill and work or produce a real physical thing like carpentry or something if you absolutely must pursue a career in the art field -- a really dumb and short-sighted thing to piss away your whole life on with a very high probability of abject failure and destitution: it's not at all a stable or profitable career path! History is also replete with the stacked bodies of artists who've died penniless and alone and unloved, no one ever caring about a single thing they've said, done, thought, nor felt.
And making a living off whatever's your passion is throwing your passion away, because you'll someday soon no longer have your passion and it'll just end up your job, just be work, and you'll hate and resent what you once loved and probably won't love anything else ever again. Don't get caught in that quicksand, keep art-craft your hobby and separate it from your livelihood; work smarter, not harder.