Alex Kempton 🦋

People will be like, “generative AI has no practical use case,” but I did just use it to replace every app icon on my home screen with images of Kermit, soooo

Value doesn't come from the effort you put in. I'm sorry. It doesn't. It doesn't come from struggle, or your sweat, or your tears. It doesn't come from your experiences. It doesn't come from how many hours you worked at it or how many years you took to learn to do it. Those things may help you to put a price tag on what you need to compensate you - but that's not the same thing at all. You can dig holes and fill them in again all day long, but all that effort isn't going to result in anything valuable. It comes purely and only from the demand anyone else has for it, which is often just something very subjective and irrational which you have no control over. Someone dying in a desert values that bottle of water far more than the Mona Lisa. The labour theory of value as an argument for "real art" is as wrong as it is for anything else. Meaning is individual, personal, relative and subjective. Someone using AI as part of their workflow to produce something successful, instead of some other tool, has no bearing on the output People can produce slop with pen & paper, and other people will produce art with AI. The fact that the artist was able to possibly work faster or iterate on concepts faster has no bearing on their aesthetics and taste, which is what creates something the demand for their work. If people are producing crap with it, I doubt they'd have done any better using any other medium