Quietly Lost

I really do have sympathy for people who worry they won't be able to make a career in art due to AI. But I have heard many, including those same people, describe in depth what the average "career in art" entails, and it seems to me a lot of what people are left begging for is the right to be treated like a machine instead of replaced by one.

"I can make it! I just have to have what is widely and capriciously recognized as Talent™, enough Talent™ that can get me to an expensive art school that serves as a credential gateway and is brutally unforgiving, spend time as a Starving Artist selling myself and my portfolio in the hopes of landing a job that will still not pay enough, and crawl my way up the rungs hoping I don't burn out or have my work stolen by my boss or get sexually harassed out of the job and then maybe I can land a moderately well paying career producing art nonstop for a set of board members/publishers/executives that control the entire direction of the industry and decide which art is deemed palatable enough to be released to the public at all. Or maybe I can just be born into a race/class/family that lets me skip some or all of those steps. Or maybe I can live off an inconsistent paycheck as an independent artisan hoping I can pay bills from commissions with no labor protections or benefits.

wake up babe new IE language dropped

human genders: man, woman, etc