Jonathan Hendry
#Mac / #iOS #developer since #NeXTSTEP 2.x, currently taking care of a parent and cultivating an epic resume gap.
Also interested in #electronics, #3dprinting, and #machining.
“Wait… oh my God you weren’t already doing that???”
I’m not at all surprised given it wasn’t exactly started in the present form by people with money to hire consultants who would know to do those things.
For the first mumble years there probably wasn’t much involvement by kids at all so it would never have occurred to them. Or there were some kids but not the forums or other potential settings for adult misconduct.
I had a bit making an exception for the value of “fine art” because that can get weird, like “unmade bed with a bunch of trash around it” or a signed urinal.
But I seem to have left that part on the cutting room floor.
If a piece of purely prompt-generated AI art hits a price like a shark in formaldehyde I strongly suspect it’ll be some kind of inorganic AI industry insider self-dealing to hype up the AI art market, similar to the big Beeple NFT sale.
What do you mean value?
Emotional value? No. Many parents value their small child’s drawings.
Market value? Mostly yes. Especially in commercial art like art commissioned for book covers. Untalented artists aren’t going to be very successful.
It gets led to them. By a human.
Sounds like someone under a lot of pressure to raise revenue and not having much success.