Tom Ritchford
1 min readSep 3, 2023

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No, under no circumstances would I buy any AI generated art of any type.

The promise of automation was that it would free humans from drudgery and allow us to all be artists. But in fact, "AI" is taking our best and most creative jobs, and replacing their output with talentless crud.

We, humanity, contributed these images and texts out of our own free will, to communicate with other humans.

Now a tiny number of incredibly rich companies vacuumed up all of our work, and want to sell it back to us.

Now, the work is by definition derivative. It is literally the "average" of a large number of human works and it shows it. But most corporations don't care at all. They'd rather have a mediocre work for cheap than a good one that you had to pay for.

All my life I've watched creative jobs be destroyed and replaced by automation. We have to put our foot down, now, because this is our last chance.

Spoilers: we won't. We'll continue to immiserate the population by replacing their jobs by mediocre robots. The government will encourage this process, because only the rich get any say in government. We won't deal with the climate catastrophe for exactly the same reason. At the end, there won't be much left - a billion people in a ruined world.

There will be no non-violent solution to this process, which has been going on in America for generations. Act accordingly.

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