AI Empowerment and Adaptation

rewrite this in my style: It certainly is accessible hardware wise. I was able to buy a laptop recently which allows me to test applications to my heart's content saving me tons of money rather than give more funding through API access to the large companies. It only took a couple of months to save up for rather than being inaccessible to the common people rather than only being accessible to studios or corporations. The electricity I use to run the models is less than a person playing a PS5 Pro so are you also arguing that video games are not acceptable as well? All these "artists" who were never financially solvent anyway are going to argue that the reason now is that GenAI exists rather than them just not being business minded enough to run a small business which is required if you really want to live off of just making art. When instead they should be learning python and automation so they can extend the power they can exert as a small business owner selling their artistic work. Why just sit and complain that AI is destroying everything when there is already nothing you can do about it so you might as well take positive actions in the right direction. I just do not understand the people who argue that just because they will not be able to earn money from learning that there is no reason to learn. Each day is filled with wonder for me as I learn more and more skills and am able to express myself artistically using this technology. I do it mostly through text and then I just use real images I took over the years for the choose your own adventure game generator I am making. Video games are art in a way, so now I can create games with my art which is really a fun way to express myself. I edit the prompts, creating more structure, change the graphs, nodes and edges to adjust the stories generated to become closer and closer to how I envision it. I guess that is what makes the difference between people who are able to live in the world and succeed and those that just dwell on the powers that be rather than taking constructive efforts to improve their intellectual capabilities is the difference between the worker who takes pride in their work and does a good job without being told and the intellectually lazy who simply do the bare minimum. They are stuck in the "what's in it for me?" mindset rather than the more inquisitive "what can I learn from this?" perspective of the autodidact.

Hardware-wise, it's more accessible than ever. I saved up for a laptop in just a couple of months, and now I can test applications endlessly without handing over cash to big companies for API access. No need for a massive budget, no need to be a studio or corporation—just persistence and a bit of planning. And let's talk about power consumption—running these models uses less electricity than a PS5 Pro. If that's the argument, are video games unacceptable now too? Then there are these so-called "artists" who were never making a sustainable living in the first place, now blaming GenAI for their struggles instead of admitting they never treated their craft like a business. If you really want to make a living off art, you have to think like an entrepreneur. Learn Python, learn automation—expand what you can do instead of just whining about what’s changing. Why sit around complaining that AI is ruining everything when that ship has already sailed? The only real move is to adapt, to take action in a direction that benefits you. I don’t get people who refuse to learn just because they don’t see immediate financial gain from it. That’s such a dead-end mindset. Every day is an opportunity to pick up a new skill, to push creativity further. For me, it’s all about using this tech to create—mostly through text, but I also integrate real images I’ve taken over the years into my choose-your-own-adventure game generator. Video games are an art form in their own right, and now I get to build interactive stories that align with my creative vision. I tweak prompts, refine structures, adjust graphs, nodes, and edges—iterating until the generated stories feel just right. And that’s the real divide—those who engage with the world, build, adapt, and push forward versus those who waste time fixating on external forces instead of improving themselves. It’s the difference between someone who takes pride in their work, refining their craft without being told, and someone who coasts, doing the bare minimum. The mindset shift is everything—moving from *"what’s in it for me?"* to *"what can I learn from this?"* is what separates the ones who thrive from the ones who just exist.