.world and most of the fediverse is generally a political leftist safe-space. Anyone who says otherwise is being disingenuous. Go on the front page and youll see a constant stream of muh capitalism-bad, every other meme has to be about gay/trans/neopronoun stuff or a poorly veiled political commentary (often both), endless doomerism about the environment, class system and social justice imbalances. If you dare to ever point this out you'll get hit with the ol' "EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL HAHA WANNA CRY ABOUT IT SNOWFLAKE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE" deflection theyre probably used to being on the recieving end of.

It screams 'Social media for liberal arts students in their 20s-30s Who decided the best use of their time, financial investment, and education potential was to be formally taught drawing in-between political lessons teaching 'straight white men bad and need to be opressed since you cant oppress the oppressor', think they have all the solutions to societies problems because they read a book on economic theory and restorative justice for minorities theory that semester.

AI tech bros generally have no respect for the humanities or art as a creative process. Theres a non-zero amount of ai-bros who get off on the fact that artist aren't going to be the last to be outsourced to automation like they think they were, and the work artist create arent untouchable products of creativity (that tech bros happen to not posess and thus are envious of/ dont respect as valuable). Theres a kind of art and creativity in AI with frontier researchers contributing beautiful proofs stitching together new frameworks from classical literature that are too nerdy and formal for artist to appreciate. Engineers and buisiness people see dollar signs and cost calculations, crunch the numbers, and decide its cheaper to use stable diffusion to boilerplate graphical design than hire an artist. The fact some people go out of their way to brag and rub it in artist faces while stealing their work to have a trained model copy their approximate style/likeness with none of the soul that human touch adds. Yeah its easy to understand why the liberal arts crowd and the AI crowd have some bad blood.

The artist are rightfully insulted and existentially threatened, the AI community is at best indifferent and at worst maliciously gleeful about it. The current copyright system is too outdated to appropriately protect their creative works and even if it were't the megacorps like facebook, non-copyright respecting foreign countries, and usual internet pirates wouldn't give a fuck anyways. The only silver lining is artist are historically gatekeepy smug pricks with emotional complexes so maybe a bit of ego shattering and reality checks could do them some good. Still, I'd rather see society respect their works as a right even if they are obnoxious assholes.

Until this tension relieves I don't see the two sides making ammends.