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Brian LaRossa@brianlarossa.com |
The NYT laying off half it’s art dept as they ramp up the use of A.I. tools is 100% related to UArts closing due to a “steep drop in enrollment.” Regardless of A.I.’s actual capabilities the story being told to (and accepted by) business leaders is damaging the perceived value of the visual arts.
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John Dellomes
@johnneedee.bsky.social
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Bad enough that designers in general are already super underpaid…
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Reki Variede
@rekivariede.bsky.social
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The important part is that visual arts NEVER had a perceived value, except by the people who aren't jumping on board the AI bandwagon It's why they are so eager to go to AI: they NEVER felt that visual arts were worth paying for, so they see this as a final out for not paying artists
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Nat Lyon
@natlyon.bsky.social
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AI art sucks. Also.
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kd
@krunkledunx.bsky.social
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Raymond Gibson
@raymondgibson.bsky.social
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What if clipart strained the power grid?
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Meat Sweats Enthusiast
@raulpudd.bsky.social
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Why do all of these New York Times illustrations have so many fingers and three breasts?
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KI7BDA
@ki7bda.bsky.social
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As a techo-optimist, I'd like to point out that photography displaced some oil paint portraiture, but spawned a lot of art. Artists gonna art...
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Achilles
@achillesheelart.bsky.social
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It is astounding how quickly this is happening.
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Gov
@govindmohan.com
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I hope bsky eventually becomes a mad max hippie commune that rejects the shitty overworld
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SkyIce
@skyice.bsky.social
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I would say it is damaging the actual value since it's basically legalized piracy at this point.
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Baj Mihal
@bajmihal.bsky.social
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I will not give this rag one more click ever again. Fuck them!
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Alzamon || アルサもン
@alzamon.art
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I often ponder if I were an 18 yo today, would I choose an arts major as I did? Frankly, I wouldn’t know what to answer. Many things that made sense in the 90s no longer do now. But even back then arts were sneered at as a career so… whatever I guess 🙃
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Beckett Gladney
@beckettgladney.bsky.social
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Even before AI art, getting an art or illustration degree was really expensive and not the path to good finances. Some of us got lucky, emerging from art school when there was real demand for people who could draw- but even then it wasn't reliable. It's a lot to spend for low money prospects later.
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Melodramatic for the People
@bisonbison.bsky.social
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We don’t need humans when a robot can write the most meaningless, artless sentences ever created
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@owenf.bsky.social
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Or the actual value is approaching the asymptote where it falls to zero.
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Tina Hoggatt
@thoggatt.bsky.social
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What a travesty.
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HandMade Monster
@handmademonster.bsky.social
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This is all so depressing. Big institutions should absolutely defend the value of creativity … What is next? The writers?
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Bess Williamson
@besswww.bsky.social
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not disagreeing with the gist here, but when it comes to U Arts never underestimate the power of general mismanagement as opposed to current-moment miscalculation. Just what I gather from what I've seen around.
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Ben Crossbones
@bencrossbones.bsky.social
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Jesis Cris
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@stephenboyd.bsky.social
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Soon they’ll replace their audience with AI
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@squeegeaddict.bsky.social
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This is so incredibly sad. AI taking all the beauty and not the work from humans is so depressing...
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Mimi Simon
@mimisimon.bsky.social
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I'm as upset as anyone about NYT laying off it's art department (such that it was) However I think Uarts is actually closing because it's a bad school and people don't want to pay a huge amount of money for a subpar education.
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@jcameron.bsky.social
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This is devastating. What is art if not a reflection of culture, and if we don't value art, what does that say about us?
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Brian Kirby
@boringstorybook.com
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It’s amazing. It’s like a brain fog has overtaken people.
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Michiel Duvekot
@duvekot.bsky.social
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The suits at the New York Times don't seem to understand that I only have a subscription to their paper because their people can make things that I can't. If they replace those people with a software tool, I don't need a subscription anymore. I might as well get the software, and do it myself then.
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