Is it exhausting having to reframe every single thing through a bizarro culture war lens? Seems like it would be.
I think is more exhausting using platforms and syndication to promote ideologies that claim to cause harm (but mostly only to those who are successful, while also mostly being used by those who are successful) so thus it should be limited or controlled, though AI has the most value for those who they wish to control as it makes tasks accessible to those with out. To me its more like the people in power fighting to keep that power, of which I could give no shits about. Only thing I could say at this point to those who are still putting up a fight, deal with it. This is a matter of making things accessible, not a matter of who has the most talent. They would like you to think they are more worthy of making art than you. I'd be more worried about that.
I don't see why Nature is obligated to publish you, free expression or not.
I don't see why Nature is pandering the privileged while also saying that people who get aid can fuck off? When you frame it in a matter of accessibility does that make you feel like an ass for telling people that they must make the grade and their work is not worthy? What kind of inclusive community does that create? Oh can't afford $$$ worth of glass and cameras, get lost. That's all I see here. I'm fine avoiding that community all the same too. Think about how many young people who are poor who have no means to get the gear required to participate, except they have this app that would allow them. But this community has made a clear message to that person they are not welcome. I think thats sad and a real statement unto itself and is a perfect reflections of our current "nature"