it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

She's also publicly stated that she believes that anyone who reads her books or watches her shows and films does so because they explicitly agree with her political views.

There's no "agree to disagree" with her work. Every time you pick up her work or talk about it you are saying to her "I agree with you Joanne" whether you like it or not.

From facebook; mic drop.

So that last line punched me in the face so hard I hit the reblog button. Oh well.

Honestly I can tell you finding out art was made by AI really does immediately, legitimately sour it for me, like people will trot this out as a Gotcha for anti-AI people but it's just making it clear they don't consider art to be the conversation that it is lol. It's similar to the way Harry Potter immediately soured for me because engaging with it while knowing the kind of heart Rowling is writing from changes the way the work feels; there isn't any moralizing or whatever that I have to do, it's easy to drop it because it's rotted in my hands.

"Oh but you LIKED this song before, nothing changed!" The conversational partner did. A very large portion of what is interesting to me about art is thinking of why the creator chose that instrumentation, or what made them want to make the thing in the first place. Finding out I've been talking to a wall completely removes an entire third of the force that art is to me, and I can't argue that anything about art or its consumption is Objectively Correct but I can argue it's fucking boring lmao

100%

In 2003, James Frey published a book titled Million Little Pieces that was ostensibly about his personal history with substance abuse. It was a critical darling that received frequent plaudits and a great deal of commercial success.

In 2006 it was revealed that the book was actually a work of fiction and that Frey had not experienced the struggles he claimed in the text. The house of cards immediately collapsed as audiences and critics realized the deception. Overnight Frey's cultural cache vanished and with it, his novel.

There were, as with AI today, people defending Frey after the truth emerged. They argued that the content was the same and even when known as a work of fiction, the prose hadn't changed. But the broader culture felt the shift. Their relationship to the work was not the same as before. This was not connecting with a real person's loved experience. This was a lie. Regardless of where one fell on the acceptability of Frey's misrepresentation, his book is now largely forgotten from our culture.

AI is the same. The people hawking them are pretending as if it's the same as a real person's experience and artistry, but it isn't. It's shapes in the clouds. It's offloading the entire artistic experience onto the audience and asking them to pay you for the privilege. There is no artist who you're understanding and sharing a moment of human connection. It's just lines on a page.

now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself

"yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story" thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code

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