sad to see tech and art culture separating through lens vs farcaster. 

love the absence of this divide in nyc. berlin bubbles separate and i hate it.

hope we unite

Think about who is driving this conversation. By and large it is not organic user feedback as it is employees

The Lens marketing team is manufacturing this perceptual divide in an attempt to win net new users; punching up at the more successful service. I don’t believe it is a reflection of the reality today, but them trying to shape the future

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It is a reflection of dwr’s contempt for artists and their opinions of his protocol and client.

Why do you think dwr used AI generated images for all the commemorative Warpcast or token artworks?

Revealed preference: art isn’t important enough to hire a human to make something cool for our culture here

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a silly commemorative artwork lackadaisically shit out reveals a lack of concern or taste for art as well as a lack of concern over what feelings this will invoke in all the artists who use and stan the protocol daily

I feel like that is a personal resentment. It’s not borne out in the product, where I have seen over time how Warpcast has become much friendlier to visual image display and also supported pretty effortless one click minting. If Dan hated artists he would design a product that diminished the work and made it harder to get paid? A silly commemorative nft has no bearing

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I’m not an AI artist though, that’s the problem and that’s where the revelation occurs. Many artists still look down on AI shit, many here in this space as well, they just won’t say it as much as it doesn’t make anyone any friends.

Whether it’s contempt or just a complete lack of care is another thing but both aren’t cool.

what led you to draw this conclusion about someone else’s contempt? 

and in the early days when there were like 200 of us on the network, which FC-native AI artists (other than 0xen and yourself) would you have chosen to commission the commemorative tokens?