Living legend William Shatner has released a copy of his new album Sunday. Where Animals Sleep: Songs for Children and Other Creatures. Soon, he found himself under fire on social media for using what people thought was his AI-generated art on the cover.
You can pre-order my new children’s album on Amazon. https://t.co/CFiRzv8Lpw pic.twitter.com/jfvJfopdKX
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 21, 2024
The point of the complaint was that artists were losing their jobs to AI computers, as if all kinds of people hadn’t lost their jobs to computers for the past 50 years.
What makes crybaby artists so special?
“Please don’t use the AI cover. Children deserve more than AI salad,” whined. One Tweeter.
“This is terrible” xweeted another. “Take a step back from doubling down, reflect, support real artists, and be like Kirk.
Basically, the multiple Emmy Award winner was ambushed in a disgraceful campaign. But Shatner was having none of it. And, as she has done many times in the past, in response to his excruciating scolding, the actor fired back:
👇🏻Another hateful artist is dumping another artist’s work. 🙄 I think the term “tortured artist” means being tortured by your peers. 😑 https://t.co/XgTOGZLoKS
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 24, 2024
They were well paid. https://t.co/AsyyLY2ZMw
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 24, 2024
I know the artist’s name. As you would do once an album comes out, this guy has done at least a dozen album covers, all completely different, and unlike some of the other so-called artists here, he doesn’t call it a virtue. I have continued to do so for several years, expressing my disgust. https://t.co/O3bkuNE9tR
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 24, 2024
And, the record company told Shatner, the album cover was not generated by AI. Actual artists were involved and paid handsomely for their work. This results in Star Trek Give your critics plenty of ammunition to ridicule them.
“Imagine how so-called enlightened people can easily make poor judgments and disrespect the work of their colleagues,” he says. I tweeted. “It shows how much they know about their medium and their calls acting as AI.”
This sense of entitlement among the artistic class is beyond infuriating. At a time when countless working-class men and women across the country are being replaced by machines and robots on assembly lines, has one of these so-called artists taken to the streets?
Why should artists be exempt from progress?
Why should we pay artists to create something that AI can generate for free?
Do these artists refuse to buy cars, cars, and electronics that aren’t completely handmade?
Of course I’m not a hypocrite.
These so-called artists didn’t even step up to save the disc jockey job, which has been almost entirely replaced by computers.
Just last week, the same people were complaining about AI-generated movie posters. civil war.
One commenter wrote, “Fire the person who approved this garbage. It’s disgusting and insulting to the viewers.”
“A24 using AI in advertising could be a sign, or the beginning of the end for a company that relied on an indie aesthetic. Incredibly disappointing,” another wrote.
Another commenter wrote: “Hire a real artist.”
Like almost everything that brings about progress, AI does not eliminate jobs. Instead, other types of jobs will be created. Humans must program and maintain AI computers. Those are jobs. The benefits of AI are huge. For example, I no longer have to work with spoiled, entitled, whining, anti-progressive fickle “artists.”
If artificial intelligence can make artists crybaby like this, I’m more excited than ever for the future.
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