This is why I never gave up on DVDs, even though people would laugh. As soon as Prime shoehorned ads in the middle of a show or movie, that’s when I cancelled. I’ll have to do the same with music and get my iPod battery fixed up if I can.
What does ‘democratise art’ even mean? It’s not like everyone votes for a specific generated AI image.
Anyway, I think what you mean is Socialism, in terms of AI making ‘skills’ available for everyone.
But it’s not. It’s stealing your capability to learn and taking it for itself without paying you for your efforts. Every input you use trains the model. Even though you’re not creating art, you’re still creating a prompt and you should be paid for your labour.
It’s already been said by the operators of this massive scam. They can only operate via theft.
Have you gone to their (Collective Shout) website to check out their successful campaigns? They’ve taken down a manufacturer on Temu who makes silicon heads used for piercing. Apparently the heads looked too much like children.
Local slang word that derives from “their brains are fried/not working” which also implies stupidity and fanatical adherence to things like religion, anti abortion, anti vax, and the like.
Goddamn cookers the lot of them. Perhaps I’ll make an abortion game on Itch in protest.
You can thank Advance Australia for that. Huge think tank that likely bank rolls all this nonsense and more.
Also, down with Collective Shout! As someone who suffered child abuse, I condemn these cookers crusading under the guise of child protection. FFS, they were patting themselves on the back for stopping sales of plastic heads on Temu.
Right at the start, there were sometimes the “you wouldn’t steal a car” warning about pirating movies but there never has been ads in the middle of whatever you were watching.