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dresden@discuss.online Joined: 2023-07-22

An interesting keynote about hidden cost of AI Art by the author Brandon Sanderson. I might be a bit biased though, since Sanderson is my favourite author, and I am resistant to some of the things "AI" is used for, if not completely anti-AI.

What do you think about this?

Note: It's from the event in Dec 2025, it was just posted in text form recently. If you want to watch the video, you can do it here: https://youtu.be/RXyWtp8tuYY?t=1988 (about 15-20 mins long, might have to go couple of seconds forward or backward)

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