Runway CEO cites 1888 Kodak backlash as analogy for today's AI art haters
c_valenzuelab · x · 2026-11-15
Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela draws a historical parallel to the AI art backlash: Kodak's 1888 slogan "You press the button, we do the rest" made the art establishment despise button-pressers, and Alfred Stieglitz wrote in 1897 that photography was "on its last legs, thanks principally to the bicycle craze." The implication: every democratized creative tool faced elite scorn before becoming a legitimate art form.
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