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Real art, the final frontier:

The complaints boiled down to artists losing their jobs to AI computers, as though all kinds of people haven’t lost their jobs over the last five decades to computers. What makes these crybaby artists so special? “Please don’t use AI cover. Kids deserve more than AI salad,” whined one xweeter. “This is gross,” xweeted another. “Step back from your doubling down on this, reflect, support actual artists and, you know, be the person Kirk would be. .... Then, according to what the record company told Shatner, the album cover wasn’t generated by AI. An actual artist was involved and paid well for their work. This gave the Star Trek star plenty of ammunition to ridicule his critics. “Imagine, so called enlightened individuals who were quick to misjudge and put down a fellow associate’s work,” he xweeted. “Shows you how much they know about their medium and calling out works as AI.”

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