Does SF's artist exodus explain the weak consumer AI story? A spicy debate
round · x · 2026-11-11
- threepointone argues there's a straight line from SF pushing out artists, bands, writers and small businesses to the world's lack of a clear consumer AI narrative.
- Anyavovaa pushes back hard: that artist archetype barely exists in reality — artists are hyper-specialists whose skills don't transfer, and London's dense art-school scene never produced a winning consumer AI story either.
- The exchange captures AI circles' ongoing split over whether 'taste' can be outsourced to artists.
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