Just now. I was reading this thread and grinning at other people's misfortune so my wife decided I should join them and bit me 😵

I think it might take a lot longer than 20 years for plastic to fully die down

It's dead. The main dev announced they've ceased development and shut down the main instance.

Actually, star trek might be. In their lore, things got a lot worse before they got better.

Nah CEOs will mandate RTO for workers while they themselves stay remote.

Aw man, I love how you just said "extended cut". It took me a looooong time to realize it's a parody.

Replace insta with Lemmy and I'm livin' the life

What is gay underwear? Like a specific brand?

Yes, but skillful is a different thing entirely

What a stupid, stupid reason to have to live through another Trump presidency and continue the war unchanged.

FTFY

You can just run yay with no arguments and it does exactly what your update script does.

So, before the invention of the camera, the most valuable and most popular creative skill was replicating people on canvas as realistically as possible. Yes, we remember famous exceptions like Picasso, but by sheer number of paintings the most common were portraits of rich people.

After the cameras took that job away, prevailing art changed to become more abstract and "creative". But that still pissed off a lot of people that had spent a very long time honing a skill that was now no longer in demand.

What we're seeing is a similar shift. I think future generations of artists will value color theory, composition, etc. over specific brush stroke techniques. AI will make art much more accessible once enough time has passed for AI assisted art to be considered art. Make no mistake: it will always be people that actually create the art - AI will just reduce/remove the grunt work so they can focus more on creativity.

Now, whether billion dollar corporations deserve to exploit the labor of millions of people is a whole separate conversation, but tl;dr: they don't, but they're going to anyway because there is little to stop them in correct economic/governance models.