Chris (Simpsons artist) has illustrated a New York Times essay on artists using AI…
2d 19h ago by lemmy.world/u/artwork in fuck_ai from www.nytimes.com
“Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything” nowadays, a.k.a. vibe-living, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square to prevent contagion, and then A.I. should resurrect you virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity...
Criticizing A.I. as a criminal plagiarizing machine that steals the work of artists without permission or compensation used to strike me as a bit hyperbolic...
The point is, I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.
Read the book, not the summary.
Write the piece, not the prompt.Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.
Source [web-archive]
Apparently, there was a different article title:
2026-04-15-09-06-16 - "Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I."
2026-04-16-06-23-16 - "Don’t Use A.I. to Do This"
Thank you very much! The authors, of both the article, and the illustration are... miracles...
Of course, art is of human for human... there should be no artificial/machinery/emptiness involved...
Related: https://lemmy.world/post/46352738 (Chris (Simpsons artist) has illustrated a New York Times essay on artists using AI...)
Illustration (from the article)
~ Chris (Simpsons artist)
Source [web-archive]
Suffering for your work feels like an absolutely inherent part of being an artist, we torture ourselves over such little things just so we can gain a different perspective or live in uncomfortable situations to provoke feelings to stir things inside of us, I don't think it's absolutely necessary and of course you can do art without suffering, but I think that there is a degree of suffering in all great art. A lot of people aren't comfortable with that or even understand it.
Of course... absolutely... thank you...
This is one of the main reasons art exist. To transfer a real feeling, experience over the time from an alive soul to soul...
A memorable piece from the 74th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Exhibition (Geidai Graduate Exhibition). Mao Watanabe's "A Cute Mascot That Won't Offend You." Graduate School Design major. Exhibition room on the 3rd floor of the University Art Museum.
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The text inside the "cute mascot" states (translated using Google):
Sometimes we have to look at things that are not pretty and are unpleasant.
- “Because I don’t really understand.”
- “Because it has nothing to do with me.”
- “It’s kind of uncomfortable.”
As you lose sight of everything, eventually there will be nothing cute left.
Since isn't it for everyone's own, or credendo vides!
The main reason I am interested in art is communication... The soulful discussion about the reason, the truth, the life, the very purpose... A dialog between us, human, the people with souls and our beliefs, experience, desires, our mission... An attempt to express and listen to those who discover the world and life as a miracle...
To be frank... I try to always avoid anything AI in art however I can... because I instantly consider my finite life time...
Art helps me to find the very reason I appeared on this planet, in this Universe, in the infinite of time...
The effort in art expressed emphasizes the time as precious and finite resource we have...
The effortful unique human experienced artwork helps me to believe... to believe I must continue the faithful adventure for the reason other people do...