Writer, senior editor, music nerd, GenX eldergoth, monastery-bootstrapper. https://paragraph.xyz/@danicaswanson https://tinyurl.com/Black-Stone-Wordsmith

Creative work done "for exposure" (aka "hope labor" that earns a pittance at best) was a huge problem long before crypto arrived on the scene, to be sure... but sadly I think the situation is getting even worse.

Threads like this one are sobering to read, but there's an element of relief, too, because I'm reminded that the problem is mostly attributable to extractive structures, and not my own failings as a writer.

https://warpcast.com/cameron/0xaa7734d2

Ever since this thread started, I've been thinking, why do they want AI to be an artist so bad? 

I know AI is helping where it's needed like in the medical but why not have the conscience to let artists, who weren't even earning much before, just be?

Or is there another angle to this?

A creator. Onchain & offchain. Based. 💙

Artists were not always properly appreciated, now with artificial intelligence, this situation has become much worse:)🥲

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