garfieldno form of property ever empowered artists and it never will
the 1% of people who are able to live off art love to talk about "artists" as a class as if the interests of that 1% and the remaining 99% of people who make art were the same
not to mention that this group of "all people who make art" includes nearly everyone. The foundation of this ideological parlour trick is the reduction of "art" to include only that which takes on the form of a commodity. When of course most acts of creation past and present do not and cannot be sold
a.i. image generators are not the catastrophe, the catastrophe has been taking place for centuries. the problem is not your competitors, the problem is that a competition is being held