Never ever claim to support the poor if you get butthurt at the idea that poor people can now access tools to create beautiful art. And if your first thought is to take shots at me for claiming that “Ai art can be beautiful”, you’re part of the problem!!!
You're just venting your anti-leftist prejudice, I get that. Finding a way to work an anti-leftist rant into the subject at hand is practically a pastime around around here. But your thesis that only the wealthy and privileged were capable of creating art until generative AI came around is absurd. We've literally been in the midst of a global creative renaissance across every creative field, AI wasn't necessary for any of it.
He would have loathed the industrialization of art and the concentration of the means of production in the hands of huge corporations.
Marx proposed the equality in the access to the means of production. He never said that everyone has the right to "be" the greatest chess player by using Stockfish. He never said that everyone must be an equally great mathematician.
The empty claims about equality are from the huge corporations who hold the means of production and steal from the original producers.
"Never ever claim to support the poor if you get butthurt at the idea that poor people can now access tools to create beautiful art."
Being able to afford a decent laptop/machine to run diffusion models or a SaaS subscription to Midjourney is VASTLY less financially viable to poor people then just putting pencil to paper.
Poor people have ALWAYS been artists, and artists have ALMOST ALWAYS been poor people.
Did Jeff Koons have his "poor people" phase while working as a Wall Street commodities broker before going on to flog shit artworks for millions?
