Rich People Explaining Why Generative "AI" is Cool - When Machines Change Art [1] - СhatGPT and the Imagenet moment [2] While I really like how well written these essays are (and the fact that people seem to have time to write these seems amazing to me) and how they provide insight into how to think about generative models in general terms, they as usual miss the giant elephant in the room. When you remix music with turn-tables or sample a hip-hop song, it does not require you to make multi-million dollar investments in model training ... and power is not concentrated in the hands of a handful of "small labs" training models on 6,000 GPUs. What personally baffles me is that this promotes the dystopic vision of the future where the whole world has to live hand to mouth, fueling the ballooning US debt, which enables in turn these "small labs" to make these more and more siloed products. And people in all of these write-ups are totally oblivious to this. I wonder why ... vested interests maybe? This just furthers the trend of the media production centralization, music industry centralization. And now ... if you have distinguished yourself as a visual artist ... your fruits are ripe for picking without your consent. The more prominent you are, the more you undermine yourself. You see, I also DO NOT BELIEVE that "AI will replace art", I just think that it contributes to the narrative of highly unbalanced economy, where top 0.01% streamers / "musicians" / corporations get 95% of the revenue.