I haven’t seen this discussed much, but there is a sizable contingent of ostensibly very socially left-wing, artsy people who have done a bunch of moral gymnastics in order to justify generating art with AI. Something something subverting capitalist barriers to artistic ability.
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How do people on the Left justify the cost to the environment or to huge swaths of working artists. Techno-utopianism only works if these folks forget the human cost, something the left is supposed to prioritize.