Its more than that, AI art seems like crack for right-wingers. Something about a lifetime of “the curtains are fucking blue” and “my ignorance is just as valid as your knowledge” applied to media makes art no more than aesthetically pleasing shapes and colors for these people, and AI can do surface level aethetics really well.
I’ve read somewhere that right winger (and by extension billionaires) could see themselves become one of the millionaires class, however they cannot imagine being one day someone in the intelligencia/artists class.
At the time it was for explaining why Bezos bought on week worth of every hotel rooms in Venice and why he was pouring money into the Met Gala.
Bezos is just trying to buy his goblin wife a lifestyle/cultural thing. He tries with Vogue then after that seemed to not work he fucked up wapo for it.
So that’s why he is putting money into the met gala I think.
I’ve read somewhere that right winger (and by extension billionaires) could see themselves become one of the millionaires class, however they cannot imagine being one day someone in the intelligencia/artists class.
I’m not right wing and I’m completely broke mostly for reasons to do with a manipulative ex rather than a lack of income, but it’s still far more likely that I’ll one day be a millionaire than that I’ll one day be an artist. And I suspect that’s the same for a LOT of people.
You can luck into a well-paid job and good connections, you can’t really luck into a skill you were never born with. They say hard work beats talent, but if you have zero talent, no amount of hard work will suddenly give you a sense of imagination worth a damn. 9 years worth of mandatory art class in school AKA mostly drawing or painting for 2 hours a week and my skills cap at… side view of a bus. An European one, not an American one.
So yes, it’s a lot easier to fantasize about kicking off a successful business or just lucking into a high-end executive role at a job than it is to fantasize one day creating something that someone would actually find beautiful or meaningful.
‘Be an artist [as a professional job]’ and ‘be an artist [someone who makes art]’ absolutely shouldn’t be considered synonymous. Anyone can be an artist. People were artists tens of thousands of years before job specialization was invented. The desire to make art is inherent to the human condition, and that doesn’t have to mean ‘draw/paint fine art’. Sewing, woodworking, tile/brick laying, garden design, sculpture, photography, fabric dyeing, there are so many artistic ways that people can express themselves that don’t have to be inaccessible. And that’s just visual art, not even touching performing or writing! You are capable of creative expression in a way that interests you and you enjoy.
Its more than that, AI art seems like crack for right-wingers. Something about a lifetime of “the curtains are fucking blue” and “my ignorance is just as valid as your knowledge” applied to media makes art no more than aesthetically pleasing shapes and colors for these people, and AI can do surface level aethetics really well.
I’ve read somewhere that right winger (and by extension billionaires) could see themselves become one of the millionaires class, however they cannot imagine being one day someone in the intelligencia/artists class.
At the time it was for explaining why Bezos bought on week worth of every hotel rooms in Venice and why he was pouring money into the Met Gala.
I think it fit for AI art
Bezos is just trying to buy his goblin wife a lifestyle/cultural thing. He tries with Vogue then after that seemed to not work he fucked up wapo for it.
So that’s why he is putting money into the met gala I think.
I’m not right wing and I’m completely broke mostly for reasons to do with a manipulative ex rather than a lack of income, but it’s still far more likely that I’ll one day be a millionaire than that I’ll one day be an artist. And I suspect that’s the same for a LOT of people.
You can luck into a well-paid job and good connections, you can’t really luck into a skill you were never born with. They say hard work beats talent, but if you have zero talent, no amount of hard work will suddenly give you a sense of imagination worth a damn. 9 years worth of mandatory art class in school AKA mostly drawing or painting for 2 hours a week and my skills cap at… side view of a bus. An European one, not an American one.
So yes, it’s a lot easier to fantasize about kicking off a successful business or just lucking into a high-end executive role at a job than it is to fantasize one day creating something that someone would actually find beautiful or meaningful.
‘Be an artist [as a professional job]’ and ‘be an artist [someone who makes art]’ absolutely shouldn’t be considered synonymous. Anyone can be an artist. People were artists tens of thousands of years before job specialization was invented. The desire to make art is inherent to the human condition, and that doesn’t have to mean ‘draw/paint fine art’. Sewing, woodworking, tile/brick laying, garden design, sculpture, photography, fabric dyeing, there are so many artistic ways that people can express themselves that don’t have to be inaccessible. And that’s just visual art, not even touching performing or writing! You are capable of creative expression in a way that interests you and you enjoy.
I don’t know why people go straight to drawing. I’m an artist (fulltime) and i can’t draw.