Maybe we should do about the gaggle of coked up killers who can’t stop sexually assaulting and murdering people?

No, let’s just make their base slightly harder to google.

I know, and I can see the logic. Still, I hope that straight people can have consensual sex, because the alternative would seem to make humanity irredeemable.

I didn’t actually want to accuse you of saying this, but this sounds like to me you’re saying heterosexual sex can’t be truly consensual?

What I’m saying is that all relationships have power dynamics.

I mean, power dynamics are something that needs to be considered to make a healthy relationship, but all relationships have power dynamics. I mean, the power dynamics between men and women in general is likely more intense than the specific gap that of a 26 year old and a 19 year old.

Some thoughts on AI art and AI/software in general:

The impact of AI on artists is not unique to them. The same goes for all skilled fields affected by AI/software, but again, the effect is not uniquely produced by software. Rather, all of these instances are a sequential step towards capitalism’s end point: complete proletarianization and reduction of all strata into a two-class system via the hyper-accumulation of capital.

The impact of technology on art is the same as the impact of the power loom on the weaver. Previously, you had artisans and a craft, with a single individual involved in all aspects of the production process and thus unalienated from their labor. Following capital development, you have laborers/technicians and a production process, with intense division of labor that grinds down workers into their unadulterated labor power. It’s easy to see how artists’ traditional interfacing with the art market (through direct sale, commission and patronage) lines up with the earlier, while studio systems for animators and SFX artists lines up with the later.

With that in mind, participating as a consumer in the art market will not reverse the trends of capital development. Neither would a socialist revolution to be frank. The Soviets did not smash the textile mills like as the Luddites thought to do, but sought to utilize capital development in a manner that benefited human development.

Zizek is a lib. He’s happy enough to borrow Marxist analytical frameworks for his work and pal around with left-wingers, but whenever he’s asked to make policy prescriptions it’s always lib shit.