Thirty years and more ago when I was at school, we were all encouraged to believe that art was for people who couldn’t do STEM
Twenty years ago I realized that was nonsense and started learning to draw very intermittently. I may not be very good, but I enjoy it
Now it’s almost turned full circle and human skill and culture is being consumed and regurgitated as the sales product of obscenely wealthy men via LLMs
So maybe I indirectly vented a little there about how badly human culture and art is currently being treated. Apologies
Re. the question in the last panel: Yes, you should – you definitely should (also, is it a sign that there’s more of Princess’ personality in the robot than what we have believed?)
In her defense,
I’d go crackers too if I was assigned to work with half a dozen artists
The petulance, the egotism, the sheer number of gasping drama queens
The blind unthinking hubris! The fact they’re all at it like knives behind each other’s back!
Sling them all in the skip and go full AI baby!
Maybe we can mutate humanity to have variable numbers of fingers and toes too
Whew! Stephen, are you okay?
Thirty years and more ago when I was at school, we were all encouraged to believe that art was for people who couldn’t do STEM
Twenty years ago I realized that was nonsense and started learning to draw very intermittently. I may not be very good, but I enjoy it
Now it’s almost turned full circle and human skill and culture is being consumed and regurgitated as the sales product of obscenely wealthy men via LLMs
So maybe I indirectly vented a little there about how badly human culture and art is currently being treated. Apologies
p.s. But yeah, some artists need their meds 🙂
Re. the question in the last panel: Yes, you should – you definitely should (also, is it a sign that there’s more of Princess’ personality in the robot than what we have believed?)
Where is there a jelly-baby-weilding maniac in an obsoleate car and a bucket when you need them?
Anyway, given what Princess Prime did to her, can you blame poor Alice?