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Portrait of a Budding Marxist Post Nutrition Label Content Type: text Read Time: 7 min Topics: ai, capitalism This is almost certainly hot and mostly incoherent, poorly organized thoughtvomit. The phrase "democratization of art" is a smokescreen. Not a like lie exactly. A redirect. It points anger at the wrong door while the actual thing walks out the back: AI companies, and Capitalism wearing its Sunday best, commoditizing art as one more assault on the value of effort. Devalue time. Devalue labor. Now you've got a populace that's easier to hold. That's the trick. Sam Altman has argued AI opens creative expression to people the art world's gatekeepers shut out. Sam Altman / democratize art discussion — Prindle Institute for Ethics Adobe's CTO said the same thing, more or less verbatim, back in 2020. Adobe CTO Abhay Parasnis — TechCrunch, 2020 YouTube's CEO called it a "revolution" that would "democratize" the creative process. Different mouth. Same script. Same year after year after…

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