RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117581524153392920
As a game designer who programs, and works with artists, programmers, musicians, and more: I refuse to devalue the labor of any of my peers or place it in some separate conceptual bin that gives them fewer/different rights and protections. I treat others how I would like to be treated because that's the foundation of a good society and everyone deserves that.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117581501051894340
And that is maybe the most insidious thing about LLMs: It gives everyone the permission to disrespect everyone else's knowledge and experience while in practice making everyone's position when trying to defend against capital worse.
That is the core economic corrosion: LLMs destroy the foundation for solidarity and cooperation.
IMO "programming isn't art/creativity" isn't worth litigating because there will never be a clear hard line between any given craft's functional demands (which even abstract painters, playwrights, and conceptual artists grapple with in various ways) and its creative/aesthetic/expressive goals. Even if you program SaaS databases for a living, why devalue what you do in some minute way that doesn't usually even matter? Is it that hard to see common ground between what you & other craftspeople do?