What better way to create the dead aesthetics of fascist propaganda than to avoid paying an artist that might corrupt it with humanity, mercy, or emotional/intellectual complexity?
Is it just the theft? AI makes the theft convenient but there was such joy those losers took in repurposing Pepe back in the day, knowing the artist hated it. Appropriating art where you can make the artists mad seems as much the goal as anything else
Excellent analysis. Like all fascist art it is simply a soulless regurgitation of preexisting ideas, shaped to fit a narrative, and churned out of an industrial factory.
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Despite Fascism being the Tyranny of Artists, most artists of any worth/skill/acclaim wanted nothing to do with it.
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/