Lime Bar @limebar@mastodon.social
I am a little shocked at the lack of solidarity I see between artists working in different mediums wrt genAI.
Musicians who would never use it to make music use it to make cover art
Graphic artists reach for it to make music over their videos
Writers use it to illustrate their articles
And, considering software development an art, many use it to create web sites or apps to host their art.
None of this is necessary. All of this is harmful to the other artists.
Collaborate ffs.
Stop it.
Aug 09, 2026, 12:17 AM
I think a big part of the problem is that most people just can’t afford each other.
Sure, you can do “paid in kind” (which has it’s own complexities) but mainly there’s so many overheads in life, as well as middlemen extorting out their cut that hiring a creative is cripplingly expensive.
It’s something only affordable to either those with a lot of disposable income, or those who are planning to make a hefty profit from it (and won’t be worrying about money in the meantime either).
Even in times when I was making the same income as a plumber, the idea of hiring one was deeply financially intimidating. Even an independent one. The way it’s stacked, you can only afford to hire people in a lower class/caste/tax-bracket than yourself.
Yep. And people want to work on something they’re passionate about. So unless you’re actively collaborating all through the creative process, it’s mostly going to be one person’s creative vision. You can say that the music video is a collaboration between the animator/effects artist and the musician, but if the musician has something specific in mind that they want to make, that’s not going to feel like a collaboration for the video artist,it’s going to feel like a commission. Which no one wants to do for free.
100% this. They couldn’t afford each other before. Just because AI options are cheap and fast doesn’t make them able to afford real work suddenly.