i think that a lot of the value of art comes from the effort.

Many things that we do are only worthwhile because of the difficulty.

I think this is one of the biggest disconnects between people who create art and people who don’t (me). I don’t understand this sentiment at all. I don’t care how much effort a piece of art took or what the process was, I care about the output. But I know lots of people who create art and this stuff about the process and difficulty really seems to matter to them. Which is fine, they are entitled to like what they like, but I just don’t get it.

I don’t like AI art because it steals from artists and looks like crap, but the fact that it’s easy doesn’t matter to me.

I wonder if this is part of the disconnect between artists and AI boosters (I am neither).

Lots of good answers here. You might want to read up on Existentialism, a line of philosophy grappling with exactly this problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism

Oh I’m married so 1) the bar to get laid is lower 2) there’s a ceiling on the amount of poon I can land in a week. Really frees me up to do important things like fart around on Lemmy.

Chase poontang all day every day. Not even joking, I know myself.

I mean, a lot of “chasing” would be working out, eating healthy, and earning money, but I know why I’d do those things.

Zoltan!