Mastodawn

The deliberate conscious effort that we humans require to do anything, like make art or write an academic paper, has been belittled and glossed over.

Instead results are glamorously prized as the product of success, and the amount of effort that it took to get there is hidden away in shame.

AI is the obscene extreme to that mentality: not more thinking, effort, work, anything— get the result now. While it was that exact effort that made us human in the first place.

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Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈Feb 4

@Ameboid I guess this is why those of us who are artists and makers can see the effort behind something and can be “blown away” by what seems to be the simplest thing. The admiration of a piece of art was originally and subconsciously the admiration of the effort in a piece. But if the “public” hasn’t seen any of the effort during their lifetime, I suppose they are pretty ignorant as to “why” they admire a piece.

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Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈

@Ameboid you see this in the knitting & specialty yarn crafts. People forget how long it takes to knit pretty much anything, & they don’t know what it entails to keep, shear & process fibers like alpaca or angora rabbit 🐇. All they see is a finished hat, gloves, yarn etc. They expect to pay pennies for the hours of labor that went into it.
If you take a piece that is knitted in oh, 10 hours, at minimum (National) wage of $7.50 you’re looking at a $75 dollar thing. Forget the price of the yarn.