I assumed any AI advocacy was a poor faith argument, just trying to cheap out on paying artists/musicians/coders/etc, because our society's rooted in dicking people over on wages in general - unless they're the "right" people.

It took me *this* long to get to connect that with our society's overall shitty take on creative work as too extraneous or obviously a passion project to be paid fairly. After all, whether you're a marketing coordinator, CSR, or programmer, you're clearly passionate about your job - which means you'll put in extra hours or tackle extra tasks, effectively underpaid, right?

... unless you're the "right" people at the top, always unlikely to understand get why their underlings don't share their passion and drive to make [whatever company] profitable, yet who partly get their bloated salaries because they honestly do have that passion and drive. (And why wouldn't they, they're the ones who gain the most from corporate success.)

Now I wonder if some of it *is* good faith, but essentially privilege, where someone who's always been hugely well off and likely to easily get a new high level position just naturally assumes all of us sharecroppers have access to the same.