i think the ai art thing is really about,

people aren’t comfortable with their own disinterest in things. they don’t want to make art but they want to want to. they can’t make themselves want to. but that’s not ok with them. but they imagine it would feel good to have made art

i think these people are in a real distressing crisis of identity. they feel like they are supposed to have dreams and ideas and creative urges and they just don’t. they think they want a shortcut to where they’re trying to go, but there’s no such place. but it’s ok to not dream?

i kind of get it. i don’t want to learn guitar, or i’d be doing it. but i want to want to. i have an interest. i have two guitars i fuck around on. but i’m never mad i’m not good at it. i don’t want a shortcut. i don’t want a robot that makes sounds i can say i made

they do tell us this pretty plainly, really, when they call real artists elitists, or elite. they think that status is aspirational. there must be a big gap, where they’re taught that an artist is this valuable thing to be, but not why or how you do it or that you should do it

that’s pretty antithetical to art. the wanting to Be something rather than Do something. you only really get that when you don’t know your own motivation. it doesn’t feel good, we’ve all probably been there, groping in the dark for something you don’t know what

i think these guys are in the long run as harmed as anyone by it – these false answers to questions you’re still trying to figure out how to ask yourself, which are hard enough to answer, and with this interference might become impossible. malign thoughts you will have to unthink

so you end up into this ai art junk because you “want to do art” but you don’t. you don’t. you don’t. or you would. because you can. and you know that, right? or maybe not? because people only ever told you that artistic talent is an amazing rare gift? but artists don’t say that

there’s not a gulf between artists and non-artists. plenty of non-artists love and appreciate art very deeply. the folks into “ai art” get the worst of it all – they don’t make it, they don’t get it, they just look at it and yearn vaguely. i can’t think this is really their fault

i hate all this shit, but i also want to grab by the shoulders every one of these little idiot dweebs who says “i can’t make art without this” and go yes you can, you always could, idiot, you’ve got the same gear as the rest of us. you’re one of god’s shitty little creatures

the foundation of such a method is love. i love you, you fucking dipshit. blocked and reported