Artists Fleeing AI Echo Chambers, Seeking Authentic Voices

0:00On April 20th, artists are ditching platforms like Twitter, Etsy, and Vimeo for LinkedIn because those spots got overrun by bots, scammers, and AI. Knockoffs. The vibe shifted from real creativity to non-stop hustle, leaving genuine makers with nowhere to connect or sell. Sales, funding, and attention spans keep dropping across creative fields, forcing everyone to grind twice as hard for half to pay off. Attempts to rebuild on TikTok or Instagram haven't panned out either as the whole internet feels like a datagrab for AI training. Folks outside the arts just shrug and say get a real job, but creators are adapting where they can. Now even LinkedIn's turning into an AI echo chamber, with posts pumped out by ChadGPT or similar tools, all in that hypey. It's not just this, it's that style that still racks up likes. Big tech firms are scouting so-called storytellers to craft shiny narratives around their products, offering six figure deals to full stack creatives. Who's been the positives?

1:01Teague Grimes. She's on their pushing Nvidia collabs, owning the corporate storyline like a pro. This push pulls some artists into tech's orbit, especially accelerationists, cool with the wild AI ride ahead, while others see it as selling out to. The hustle evolves, but the core fight for authentic voices rages on.