In terms of developing visual works, the difference is that AI is generally trained on images and videos that the companies have no license to. With CGI, it wasn’t like they were just taking a bunch of other people’s art, someone still had to do creative work.

It isn’t so much that they’re putting creatives out of work, but how they’re doing it. These AI models wouldn’t exist without art developed by humans.

This is something I didn’t realize until I traveled outside the US. In some places, WhatsApp is the default.

I’ve always been very anti-Meta, and refused to get on WhatsApp until I ran into that situation.

That’s a wild take. That’s like saying you’re uncomfortable in the sauna so you moved to the desert.