thinking once again about how dead apple applies to the state of artists in the world. how shibusawa strips people of their abilities (here seen as their art) and reduces it down to a bare commodity with no soul or unique characteristics. this is the exact same thing, in my eyes, that ai art is doing. how shibusawa’s complete and total separation of the “art” from the “artist” is really just stealing an element of them and leaving them for dead. how this is what ai does, it strips the art it steals of all connection to the artist, making a soulless object with nothing standing out about it

thinking (sobbing) about how though it wasn’t intended, dead apple very much applies to the content-ification and commodification of art and the growing danger for artists in the world