So much of it now being used in animation and video game development is about firing workers and hiring them in allegedly less skilled jobs for less pay. Punishing labour, proletarianizing labour, whatever you want to call it.
Offering it for free to the public at first (temporarily, make no mistake) was the primary way to avoid too many people realizing that it is hostile to humanity
It gets them hooked on the whole "everything for free' bit, discourages "the competition" (aka humans) from learning how to do it themselves, then ultimately controls who (the wealthy) can make images and what they can portray.
Yeah it's basically saying "hey kid here's a brief taste of what it's like to be rich: You give a simple command and a skilled person gives you a complete result for you to judge" while having a lot of side effects like discouraging the actual learning of those writing/drawing skills
Someone made the comparison that this is akin to the colonisers paying for indigenous land with trinkets not realizing what the indigenous peoples were actually giving up because the concept of land ownership was just stupid to them.
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It's from a Mastodon account. From my (admittedly brief) check, the account seems sympathetic to most decent causes.
Reads like a 70s distopian pulp novel.
"Church of Jeff" on Mastodon is the original source. If you use that, check 'em out.
Yeah....