SamHain Press, artist

Do y’all remember that time that someone discovered facial recognition cameras couldn't see through Juggalo makeup, then Facebook had a fun “see what you'd look like with Juggalo makeup” thing, and then facial recognition cameras could suddenly see through Juggalo makeup?

Do y’all remember how, on Twitter, Elon started a tirade against artists who ask for credit when their art is reposted, and he suddenly he created one of the first big art AI programs?

Do y’all remember how AI destroyed the field of translation, despite the inferiority of the machine translations, because people didn’t care about the quality of the translations? They just wanted it done for free?

Do you know how companies will see a lot of money going into a New Tech Thing (like, say, AI art apps) and will jump to try and implement that New Tech Thing into their tech? For example, how it felt like every big company and celebrity had an NFT to sell?

Friends, my workplace is trying to unionize - we got over 70% of the workforce to sign union authorization cards, and yet management has refused to voluntarily recognize the union, so we will be proceeding to a vote. 

Employees at NKG have worked mandatory overtime, through the pandemic, and while the company has seen sales soar through the roof in the past few years, most of us still don’t even make a living wage. We love our coworkers and our customers, and deserve to have our efforts and dedication to the company rewarded instead of being taken advantage of. We just want good, reliable jobs in the industry that we’re all passionate about.

Friends, my workplace is trying to unionize - we got over 70% of the workforce to sign union authorization cards, and yet management has refused to voluntarily recognize the union, so we will be proceeding to a vote. 

Employees at NKG have worked mandatory overtime, through the pandemic, and while the company has seen sales soar through the roof in the past few years, most of us still don’t even make a living wage. We love our coworkers and our customers, and deserve to have our efforts and dedication to the company rewarded instead of being taken advantage of. We just want good, reliable jobs in the industry that we’re all passionate about.