Comment by ipaddr

Comment by ipaddr 19 hours ago

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In fairness no artists are advertising a personal coloring book. The time, effort and cost would put this out of reach for 99.99 of people.

No artists are losing income because of this and no industry is being upended. This is a new product that's available because of a technology advanced.

Why the focus the artist? Everytime you order in food online you take away a tip from a host, server, bartender and take away a job from a person who answers a phone. Why focus on artists when so many have been affected by technology.

Something1234 19 hours ago

And yet there’s plenty of adult coloring books made by a human out there if you’re willing to go to a brick and mortar shop. Got a super cool one from dick blicks, with a lot of underwater scenes. Also paper quality is important. I can’t imagine getting as far as I did in mine if it was newspaper

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  • saretup 16 hours ago

    That’s because those are not personalized. The economy of scale allows for artists to make generic coloring book with high quality art, but it’s expensive for artists to create (and customers to buy) custom made coloring books personalized for the customers photos.

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  • jen729w 14 hours ago

    My partner makes one! Go grab a copy if you're in Australia, the wonderful POP local -- started as POP Canberra -- sells them.

    https://www.poplocal.com.au/product/bum-man-colouring-book/

    He's 'Bum Man'. A man (actually it's asexual) who is a bum. I mean c'mon.

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    • giarc 6 hours ago

      Looks cool, but they should show more of the pages online. All I see is the (already coloured) front cover.

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seeEllArr 18 hours ago

The food you order online was not stolen from the server/bartender without their permission or compensation. Even if the analogy holds, this is whataboutism, and in the U.S. at least tipping is a fucked system too.

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  • hightrix 3 hours ago

    You’re right that the food itself wasn’t stolen, but how many restaurants actually come up with their own recipes? And how many use recipes created by master chefs that were ‘stolen’ and used by others?

    This is how art works and has always worked. Artist should be using the same AI tools that the general public use but create things that the general public cannot. That’s what artists have always done.

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    • jfengel 2 hours ago

      Recipes are the least of what goes into a restaurant. It's not a secret. In many restaurants the chef will give you the recipe if you ask nicely. If not, anyone skilled in the art could reproduce it.

      Running a restaurant is a trillion other things. Ordering the right amount of ingredients. Hiring, training, and keeping staff. Cleaning the bathrooms. Replacing stolen silverware.

      You're not paying for the secret recipe. There isn't one. You're paying for the insane amount of work that goes into putting cooked food on a plate.

      Images are much more about the specific process that went into creation. The intellectual part that can be taken is a much higher fraction of the product.

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  • ipaddr 16 hours ago

    If you stop going into the restaurant they stop scheduling servers. You or the restaurant didn't get permission from the server who isn't working there anymore.

    It's about applying your outrage evenly. Why put artists over a servers? Why do you drive when not using horses means many blacksmiths positions disappear. Technology that is accepted by society changes society. Artists will continue to evolve and create messages about those changes. No need to worry about their plight. Worry about translators or other industries that can't easily provide the same value. Artists are the one group who will survive and thrive.

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