Imagining a parallel universe where AI labs compensated artists in 2023
wordgrammer · x · 2026-09-21
The poster imagines a parallel universe where AI labs "compensated artists" back in 2023: the top 2% most talented pre-AI artists now rack up $20k/month in Runway bills, and AI art is actually good. It's a counterfactual jab responding to the quoted take that "no matter how much better AI videos get, the taste of the people who create them has never improved."
The thread plays into the ongoing AI-art debate about taste vs. tools — implying top creators already treat generative tools as heavily-paid production infrastructure.
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