Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Add up the entire wage bill for every commercial illustrator in the world, hand it to ...
Add up the entire wage bill for every commercial illustrator in the world, hand it to Open AI, and you're not even gonna cover the kombucha budget for Open AI's staff kitchens.
Hell, all the wages of every commercial illustrator that ever *lived* won't pay back even a *fraction* of the money the AI companies spent on image generators.
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