My problem is that the comments are dispassionate and many of them are completely devoid of empathy.

It would be an entirely different story if society was saying, “hey, look, this is going to affect your livelihood but we have this safety net for everyone to fall into. You’ll all be able to live comfortable lives where working is optional”.

But that’s not the reality. The reality is that many artists are going to be earning less and less revenue and there is nothing they can do about it, and this will happen rapidly.

A common argument is that alternative jobs will be created. But what are those jobs? Where are they right now, while people are making money from AI art? Professional prompt writers? One of those can do the work of a hundred artists in the same amount of time.

The comments I’m seeing on this subreddit in particular actually terrify me. I can understand why artists might be lashing out because of what is happening and the situation they are facing. There is no excuse however for the way they’re being talked about here when it doesn’t affect the commenters directly.