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Well gosh, good thing someone in big tech gave me permission to be mad about many in my field being screwed by big tech! Too bad that won't help pay for my cancer treatment because there's no way in hell they'll push out a cure soon enough when they're dumping billions of dollars into figuring out how to sell other people's artwork. At least people won't have to waste an uncomfortable few minutes writing a thoughtful note to my wife in the aftermath when they can just "Ok, google" it.

>> Art is a way of seeing, not a way of creating.

> There's no glib decree

This is a glib decree and it completely ignores most of what art actually is in our world, rather than the quaint little box that most people in the NN business try to stuff it into. Your patronizing tone doesn't lend any authority or add depth to your initial analysis, which you essentially just restated using more words. The "art vs craft" dichotomy doesn't even approach the depth and complexity of the interplay of art and commerce in the worlds like video game development, music, cinema and television, and writing... hell even advertising. Like most tech dudes that assume their incredible mental might gives them some kind of pan-topic expertise allowing them to casually dismiss subject matter experts in other fields based on a few a priori thought exercises, you simply don't know how much more you need to learn to make informed decisions about this topic.




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