Former football quarterback Colin Kaepernick has raised $4M for a business venture aiming to “revolutionize comic book book creation and publishing” by using AI. The backers of this industrialized theft of the life’s work of creative professionals refer to this scam as an attempt to ”democratize storytelling”.

The whole notion that this is somehow driven by a desire to “democratize” anything is mindbogglingly, infuriatingly stupid.

Did John Dillinger “democratize” money…?

No, what this really is, is a blatant attempt to make money by replicating the work of thousands of artists who stand to gain nothing, and whose many years of talent and hard work is now being ripped off in an industrialized fashion.

All this does is vulgarize and cheapen art, by mass-replicating it without ANY of the human talent that makes the art truly unique and worthwhile. It will allow lazy people to populate their mediocre ideas with the modern equivalent of clip art, and Kaepernick and his investor robber barons are outrageously trying to sell this as ”democratization”, even having the audacity to call the output of their AI tool ”authentic” and ”equitable”.

To use an analogy that Kaepernick might understand: it’s as if Boston Dynamics created a quarterback robot, programmed its movements using motion captures of Kaepernick himself, and then pretended they had created a great, talented athlete who should have the right to take the place of its human counterparts.

Hey, they would be ”democratizing” football, right?