Comment by MSFT_Edging
9 days ago
Investing in a skill for a craft isn't a moat.
Anyone can pick up a pencil and practice for hours a day! You can look out a window for inspiration! There is no "gatekeeping" art, only people upset it doesn't come as easily to them as B2B SAAS and confusing real effort and introspection as "gatekeeping".
The AI art people were so happy to rub it in artists face, that finally, without effort or appreciation, they no longer had to pay the skilled person for an image.
Respectfully, agree to disagree. If you had to spend time and effort to learn something, and now you can do something that "meets economic requirements" in a 30 second prompt, the moat to your income is gone.
Companies and consumers don't give a damn about how much hard work went into an art piece typically. Sorry to say.
What you're describing is devaluing a skill and inventing the moat post mortem.
Your view on the world makes me sad. You and a few million like yourself will never be satisfied. You will strip anything that is good in life to sell back a shallow clone to people, never understanding the medium in the first place.
Go read a book, talk to god, see a play, or something.
My view of the world makes you sad? What precisely is "my view of the world?" How precisely do I see the world, go on, tell me. I'm waiting for your enlightened take on my psyche.
You have no idea about me, no idea of my life, no idea of my interests. I'd bet money I read more than you, I don't talk to god (don't really believe in him) but I'd bet I've gone on more pilgrimages than you, and I have seen a play within the last couple months, but "I can't be satisfied?"
Screw your pretentious, self-important, cloying, bullshit-soaked idea that you're special. You're not special. Your skills aren't special - neither are mine. Grow up and stop clinging to a nostalgia that wasn't so great anyway.