I would argue the creator industry is totally broken, the money is never earned by the ones that are creating but by copyright owners, lawyers, funds, big studios, publishing houses etc. Now these extractors come with "etics" and persuade the creative minds that AI would steal "their" Art and they need to stand against it. In reality they see their parasitic business models dwindling. AI is not the problem for creative people but for tair bosses and owners. AI could be the liberator for producers as it allows them to build systems and circumvent exploitation and extraction. It shifts power and that's the reason they fight AI. Creative minds need to go into forward defense. I explored this idea in a recent essay:
I would argue the creator industry is totally broken, the money is never earned by the ones that are creating but by copyright owners, lawyers, funds, big studios, publishing houses etc. Now these extractors come with "etics" and persuade the creative minds that AI would steal "their" Art and they need to stand against it. In reality they see their parasitic business models dwindling. AI is not the problem for creative people but for tair bosses and owners. AI could be the liberator for producers as it allows them to build systems and circumvent exploitation and extraction. It shifts power and that's the reason they fight AI. Creative minds need to go into forward defense. I explored this idea in a recent essay:
https://open.substack.com/pub/theafh/p/the-extraction-machine-is-running?r=42gt5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true