Which I guess is appropriate, because he was literally crazy. He suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and died from suicide, depressed and in poverty.
That’s the opposite of “making it”. It’s zero consolation that people like his work now, he never even knew.
So is building a tool that will only generate "approved" art. We need to be able to express our idea, feelings, our perception of the world in ways that do not fit corporate standards of text, audio, or visual communication. It's part of being human.
And so is eating ice cream with your forehead. Are we just doing non sequiturs now? I didn’t defend image generation tools in the slightest.
> We need to be able to express our idea, feelings, our perception of the world in ways that do not fit corporate standards of text, audio, or visual communication.
I agree. My point started and ended with “van Gogh in an awful example when talking about artist who ‘made it’”. That’s it. There is nothing in there to be extrapolated to AI or any other subject.
That plan B is now going away, and a music career will be much more like a sports career: either you make it in football, or you need to find another career where your football skills won’t be very useful.
That is obviously scary for many.