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I am a little shocked at the lack of solidarity I see between artists working in different mediums wrt genAI.

Musicians who would never use it to make music use it to make cover art

Graphic artists reach for it to make music over their videos

Writers use it to illustrate their articles

And, considering software development an art, many use it to create web sites or apps to host their art.

None of this is necessary. All of this is harmful to the other artists.

Collaborate ffs.

Stop it.

Aug 09, 2026, 12:17 AM

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Insult Randall Munroe in my presence again and you will feel the back of my hand.

XKCD stick convey more emotion in their non-existent faces than some fully rendered human characters I've seen (and if you think he draws stick figures because he doesn't know how to draw anything else, think again -- the man's an artist. He's also not bad at replicating other artists' styles. He draws stick figures because he wants to.)

And when you've written four published books purely out of a passion for teaching other people science, and made 20 years' worth of comics about all your autistic special interests and irrational fears and quirks of your thinking, then we can have a conversation about art being meaningless because it's perceived to be low quality.