X debate: do artists starve because influencers hog attention, not because of AI?
Bowermanland · x · 2026-09-21
In an X thread, Bowermanland argues artists starve because people don't buy art and commercial art jobs (poster design, furniture patterns) have vanished in the computer age, while iamtrask counters that the real cause is influencers and celebrities hogging attention and cultural value creation.
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