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The typical AI creator’s first dollar comes from the video platforms themselves, through the kinds of incentive programs that TikTok, YouTube and Instagram built to reward viral success.

Making cash off ‘AI slop’: The surreal business of AI video

Drew Harwell & Gerrit De Vynck & Shira Ovide & Chris Velazco & Dan Lamothe & Tara & Alex Horton & Nick Mourtoupalas & Eric Lau & Hannah Dormido

The first casualties of the exploitive revolution are character and community. When those fundamental integrities are devalued and broken, then perhaps it is inevitable that food will be looked upon as a weapon, just as it is inevitable that the earth will be looked upon as fuel and people as numbers or machines.

The World-Ending Fire

Wendell Berry

One of the main themes of anti-generative-models critique is that it heralds the end of artistic innovation; the models automate the recycling of past cultural production, further depleting the world of the kinds of audiences that could support an avant-garde. The rebuttal to this is usually takes the position that all artistic innovation has always been no more than remixing and repurposing elements from the past to make something new, and AI models are no different from previous technical developments that allowed for new tactics of appropriation and transformation.

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