While I really hate the narrative of "tech bros" because of how it conflates shitty CEOs with non-shitty base-level programmers, and how it conflates Dunning-Kruger-y early adopters with people who Know Their Shit about computers...
...On the AI art issue, I will say, there is probably a legit a culture clash between people who primarily specialize in programming and people who primarily specialize in art.
Because, like, while in the experience of modern working illustrators a free commons has ended up representing a Hobbseyan experience of "a war of all against all" that's a constant threat to making a living, in software from what I can tell it's kinda been the reverse.
IE, freedom of access to shared code/information has kinda been seen as A Vital Thing wrt people's abilities to do their job at a core level. So, naturally, there's going to be some very different reactions to the morality of scraped data online.
And, it's probably the same reason that a lot of the creative commons movement came from the free software movement.
And while I agree a lot with the core principles of these movements, it's also probably unfortunately why they so often come off as tone-deaf and haven't really made that proper breakthrough wrt fighting against copyright bloat.
It also really doesn't help that, in terms of treatment by capital, for most of our lives programmers have been Mother's Special Little Boy whereas artists (especially online independent artists post '08 crash) have been treated as The Ratboy We Keep In The Basement And Throw Scraps To.
So, it make sense the latter would have resentment wrt the former...
This piece is a visual representation of the moment colours dance behind your eyes before you fall asleep when you're exhausted. I have this design on like 86 items, inclusing all of the above. There are stickers, phone cases, notebooks, tshirts, and more. Buy from a trans, disabled, neurodivergent artist today to help me and my boyfriend get our own housing (as had to back out of the place we were going to move to as the roommate was ALREADY being financially and emotionally abusive, and has yet to give us our first's month rent back.
(This is specifically refrencing Jack's canonical intimacy-aversion so like it'd probably be even more shocking if he suddenly started being affectionate.)