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astrid elle jo❄️(jewel of the nihil)
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Artisanal comics written and stylus-rendered with authentic human pathos by Astrid Elle Jo

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Let me explain: on average, illustrators don't make any money. They are already one of the most immiserated, precarized groups of workers out there. They suffer from a pathology called "vocational awe." That's a term coined by the librarian Fobazi Ettarh, and it refers to workers who are vulnerable to workplace exploitation because they actually care about their jobs – nurses, librarians, teachers, and artists. If AI image generators put every illustrator working today out of a job, the resulting wage-bill savings would be undetectable as a proportion of all the costs associated with training and operating image-generators. The total wage bill for commercial illustrators is less than the kombucha bill for the company cafeteria at just one of Open AI's campuses. The purpose of AI art – and the story of AI art as a death-knell for artists – is to convince the broad public that AI is amazing and will do amazing things. It's to create buzz. Which is not to say that it's not disgusting that former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told a conference audience that "some creative jobs shouldn't have been there in the first place," and that it's not especially disgusting that she and her colleagues boast about using the work of artists to ruin those artists' livelihoods.
December 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Looks like this one should be on that playlist, too!
December 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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I did have to customize the 'Bring Forward' 'Send Backward' keyboard shortcuts because Pixelmator Pro thinks the bracket keys on my Dvorak layout are actually - and + keys.

But it was an easy fix in the System Settings.
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM