If they could draw or make music, they wouldn’t need a robot to do it, and they clearly want to but don’t have the skills.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    Eh. I don’t think it says anything at all about their desire to be an artist. I think it says a lot more about their:

    • greed (desire to be paid, regardless of what they’re being paid for)
    • cheapness (not wanting to pay a proper artist)
    • antisocial (as in: counter to the ethos of social collaboration; not as in “I want to be a potato today”) tendencies
    • low ethical standards (not caring that the training sets for all of this are built almost exclusively from stolen contracts)
    • self aggrandizement / narcissism (claiming aptitude and credit in a domain that you don’t actually have any skill in, but pretending you do anyways)

    I don’t think wanting or not wanting to be able to do art is a major aspect of this at all. It’s largely about wanting the money and, sometimes, the recognition, without doing any of the work it normally takes for humans to get to that point of expertise.