I like the part where you confuse being sarcastic with being intelligent. A language model somewhere is taking notes.
> People that never considered the value of artistic process
One certainly learns of crazy things on HackerNews. Apparently people have never considered the value of artistic process, and not only that, but you also happen know that exactly.
> the topic du jour unilaterally decided
You're literally in this thread disagreeing.
> it was inefficient, oppressive, complex, frivolous, and unfairly inaccessible
Very interesting claims, too bad they were only stated in your imagination. That being said, your imagination I think is surprisingly close to my opinions! Let's discuss each point:
- it is very time-intensive to produce creative works of any kind, and indeed to perform any kind of mental work at all
- it does get pretty complex too, and because of this, some mental efforts are even shot down for being too frivolous (such as that bit of automation that is not worth making because it would never pay itself off)
- oppressive is a bit of an odd one, but if I think hard enough, I guess I can see how having to use the output of e.g. my work (software) can be oppressive
- same for unfairly inaccessible - lately there's been a trend where various services would only be available online, and the only contact you'd get is a self-service form or two. Maaaybe you'd get an AI chatbot to chat with. Certainly, to those with minimal to no tech literacy, this will be inaccessible and it will feel unfair.
> was merely the natural progression of artistic praxis
If only there was a way to disagree with this without being a dickhead!
> these tools have democratized creativity
How does one democratize an innate property of people? Surely you mean that they have democratized the production of creative works rather, and even of those only the less high-art ones, which I'm sure you never fail to point out when shown one?
> they're now broadly available to anyone willing to pay money for a subscription service that will obviously soon be a hell of a lot more expensive, or shell out a few thousands dollars for a top-tier video card that you almost certainly already have in your gaming rig, anyway.
And what happens after that? Artists will be like "oh gee, well I'm not doing this again!"?
> This is silicon valley progress
And also Hangzhou and Shenzen, China.
> and if you don't like it, you're a communist
Are you? You seem to be more of a raging idiot than anything to me at least.
