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The Duality of Xan

So AI nonsense is now attempting to replace human talent for book cover art, writing, and audiobook narration. Make no mistake, this is all about profits and money. But at what point do we consider it an assault on our entire industry?

Capitalism is the enemy of creativity and it always will be.

Why haven’t they tried to replace CEOs with an AI yet? It’s a far easier job for an AI to manage, and they’d save more money.

@XanIndigo because poor people don’t have happy dreams of being a c level exec someday

@XanIndigo Well said. #Capitalism aims for the center of a bell curve to sell more stuff. World-changing #creativity happens in the tiny tails of such distributions. The two are almost antithetical...

@Brad_Rosenheim Most great creative works in history, in both art and science, happened without a profit motive behind them.

@Brad_Rosenheim It’s honestly a pretty unpleasant notion, reducing all human creativity down to how much money it can make.

@XanIndigo Even worse when we consider that #capitalism has no intention, capacity, or desire to support the creative process. It just waits like a #vulture...

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More to the point, if the publisher isn't telling, and the consumer can't tell the difference, what can actually be *done* about it?

@sparseMatrix I think most people can tell the difference if they care to do so. The question is whether they care. We’ve already seen with AI “art” that many do not.