>>249952
I am not defending the artists, as I do want AI to replace them all, but I laugh at the fact that there are still some corporate suits that think that suddenly changing everything would not create a backlash from people. Most people don't like change, and don't like to leave the systems that they are familiarized with. This reaction from the artists is dumb, but completely predictable. Someone needs to be really dumb to think that they would not react that way.
It is like when social media changes their rules, and suddenly, everyone leaves. Or when stores change their policies, and suddenly all customers stop buying from them. Or when some company changes a successful product to something new that nobody asked for, and then the customers abandon said product due to the changes made. It was done many times in the past, over and over again, and the results are always the same, but corporate suits seem to be incapable of learning from past mistakes.