A week after asking customers to double-check that they weren’t reading an Onion article while learning about colours, the corporation has revealed its embrace of AI art. This is not only a massive scam, but it also poses a severe danger to the careers of artists all over the globe, large and small.
It is a danger not just to artists, but also to art. While people’s employment is vital, we’re not just talking about cotton gins and how this is a labor v capital breakdown in many respects; we’re talking about a process that intrudes on genuinely human activity and creative endeavour.
