“Outsiders” already had a shot at stardom. It was called talent. Having something to say. As someone whose favorite band as a teenager was Nirvana, I’m pretty annoyed by this. Not having any talent isn’t being an “outsider.”

Starts to make you think that maybe they wrote this article with AI. Feeling justified by editing the obvious errors it would make. Then trying to say that it's just fine to use it and gives hope! I chewed a straw in half on reading.

I don’t hate myself enough to read it.

Just reading the title is enough to let you know exactly what it's doing. It's grandizing/normalizing these people. Making excuses. But shows both sides, so you understand it's "fair & bananced." Yet still displaying how much of a success these people are making with their slop.

I don’t believe the headline that these people are enjoying a lot of success. But I’m still hung up on “outsiders.” It’s that general attitude that artistic talent is something artists are unfairly hoarding, and we need to find a way to take it from them.

Feels like they want to make "Outsiders" like the bullied. Bullied by those artists and writers and musicians! Think of the cases where they want to create but not work! Why not they?!

Reminds me of a certain ex friend of mine recently talking about how learning to draw is hard and that’s not fair so it’s great that AI is going to just take over.

That is just a stinking way to think.

She talked about how miserable learning to draw is. Maybe you just don’t like drawing. Go do something else! I never found it miserable. Some of us don’t. The word for us is “artists.”

An artist wakes up wanting to do the art. They love it. They want to do it over & over again, getting better at it. If they have talent, getting better happens faster, but the work put in either way means they cared about the art. They think about it even when not doing it. It is part of their soul.

A former exec from my publisher (who once called me “the most important cartoonist of the last ten years,” I just wanted to share that) told me recently what’s great about my work is how much of myself I put into it. How human I make it. I put my heart and soul and tears and laughter into this.

The uncanny valley of AI is feeling how soulless it is. It hits a bad itch in the mind. You just know. Like that steak in The Fly. Looks perfect, but the copy left a bad taste. Also, I really appreciate your art. It's take the good place in the mind.

You can’t automate that. Nothing has done more to make me believe in the soul than seeing art literally made by an entity that doesn’t have one.

Mhmm