AI, Art Sales & Ethics | Thoughts In Transit EP 0

This was originally episode 1 before we decided to leave Substack. It's even up on YouTube. More on that in next week's episode. That one requires more than the conversation we had on the car. I've been doing some research to provide some extra value with it. While I finish preparing that here's the original Substack article text for this epsiode We have conversations like this all the time. We just happened to capture this one while dropping Yani at work, as she was preparing for an afternoon discussing our work at an open house where the art been on display since January. So much has been going on that we honestly haven’t promoted it the way we should have.On top of that, we’ve had to sit with the fact that neither of us is comfortable selling art. Yani has always taken the lead in that area, and I appreciate her immensely for it. This time she used Claude to help prepare for the event, and the way she used it sparked a whole other conversation.Because here’s the thing. It works. It answered questions that humans in our circle couldn’t or wouldn’t. The DreamWorks cover art alone opened doors we didn’t know how to knock on. And that’s exactly the problem.We’re artists. We know what’s at stake with AI, for creators, for communities, for the planet. We’ve even switched platforms over it. But where would some of this work be without it?This conversation barely scratches the surface, but it landed somewhere honest. If people have a genuine beef with AI, maybe the question isn’t just about the tool. Maybe it’s the mirror.