/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6555803
>>6555814
3d printer people call themselves "makers" and still say "I made this."

You're witnessing a clash between "open culture" and "permission culture." The internet as a whole is a gigantic juggernaut in service of Open Culture, and tech people GENERALLY (not univerally) are part of open culture as well.

Copyleft licenses, piracy and the various pirate parties around the world, Linux - the backbone of servers AND phones, the propensity to make "FOSS versions" of proprietary software, sharing code as standard practice, and so on and so on.

People mad at this shit are essentially facing down not simply a smattering of tech tards but an entire ethical system alien to how they work.

In an open culture situation, it's UNETHICAL to restrict access and not be transparent, while in a permission culture situation it's wrong to assume you can use something without permission.

There are plenty of artists who are aligned with open culture stuff though, mostly ones who had basic computer literacy in the 90s-2000s. There are older boomer artists who aren't threatened by AI either, and see it as a good tool.

You get "SOUL" from having good ideas and stories to tell. You lose SOUL when that's subservient to other things. SOUL is easier to see in bad or limited-scope art, because the person is so laser focused on the _idea_ that they are trying to do everything they can to make it, while more advanced shit comes with baggage for the emotionally insecure to try clinging to. Letting go of that is how you keep SOUL while gitting gud.

>>6423482
That's cause the coding sphere was stuffed with SJW codemonkies and pajeets. The oldfags don't give a fuck. Evidence is picrel which zoomers need to understand.