No. As someone who has uploaded my own images in hopes to sell them from a stock website. You do not get paid until someone purchases your pictures to use.

Now you can use stolen data to steal even more from creatives.

Heya! I’m looking to get into self hosting. Any recommendations on good beginner tutorials or resources?

Fuck being more productive! Ai is capitalism maximizing productivity and minimizing labour costs.

Ai isn’t targeting tedious labour, the people building them are going after art, music and the creative process. They want to take the human out of the equation of pumping out more content to monetize.

Ai is not going to help people be smarter or be more competent: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf

https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf