[KarlInOhio]

A big problem with his plan if having the government support artist is that as soon as it is passed a million grifters will immediately claim to be artists, song writers or authors and fill out the forms for their subsidies. Then after decades some president will have to bring in his quadrillionaire friend (inflation, don't you know) to cut them all off.

Whenever I hear of AI art, I think of this from 1984:

The tune had been haunting London for weeks past. It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. But the woman sang so tunefully as to turn the dreadful rubbish into an almost pleasant sound.

[nopardons]

Orwell was spot on!

[nickcarraway]

A big problem with his plan if having the government support artist is that as soon as it is passed a million grifters will immediately claim to be artists, song writers or authors and fill out the forms for their subsidies.

That happened a long time ago.