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> One thing I've noticed - artists view their own job as more valuable, more sacred, more important than virtually any other person's job.

> They canonize themselves, and then act all shocked and offended when the rest of the world doesn't share their belief.

You could've written this about software engineers and tech workers.

> Obviously the existence of AI is valuable enough to pay the cost of offsetting a few artists' jobs, it's not even a question to us

No, it's not obvious at all. Current AI models have made it 100x easier to spread disinformation, sow discord, and undermine worker rights. These have more value to me than being able to more efficiently Add Shareholder Value