AI art debate misses the bigger picture: tech unemployment seen ~2 decades away
tenobrus · x · 2026-10-07
- tenobrus argues the AI art ethics debate is too narrow: he believed universal technological unemployment was 2 decades away even before DALL·E — "we're all gonna become obsolete" — so the discussion should cover implications for global human experience, not just artists.
- gandamuml adds that since the initial Stable Diffusion release, people sharing image-gen tips received death threats; the conversation was immediately and irreversibly poisoned, so the bigger point never landed.
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