I also do think the author is right in locating the right's love of shitty image generators as rooted in a hatred of artists's labour. Everything about that long discussion resonates.
Another reason they like these image generators is that they reflect biases back at them. The image generators, with their hyper focus on medians, averages and stock photos, will, unless prodded, reliably produce an image of a serious white man when asked to create an image of a doctor. The nurses will be women. The maids will be black. The world the far right wants is faithfully replicated by the image generators. Indeed, the generators are actively unable to disrupt stereotypes, such as when a researcher asked Midjourney to create images of black, African doctors treating white children. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1201840678/ai-was-asked-to-create-images-of-black-african-docs-treating-white-kids-howd-it-
Tommy Robinson's generated D-Day image may show the soldiers charging into the sea, but at least they're not diverse in any way whatsoever.
And of course, as the New Statesman author notes, no artist got paid whatsoever. The image is perfectly contemptuous of art and artists. It's also contemptuous of real veterans, but they've always been beside the point.
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