Otherwise there will really be nothing worth looting from the data centers I pass on my way to the raider encampments...

I'd bet a small wager that all the education and skills training required to become a really good prompt engineer that can instruct non-sapient AI into doing the algorithmic functions and tasks that leads to success and profitable outcomes are the same ones that comprise a well rounded (although not deep or specialized) education in the arts, sciences, language, logic, reasoning, research, and all the other traits of a 'Renaissance Man'.

We could very well see the AI education pipeline eventually start spitting out 'generally' people well educated people that could find a useful place for themselves in any 'Actuality' field, trade, or endeavor if they find working with 'Virtuality' unpleasant or unsatisfying.

(Disclaimer: I'm a former IT worker/code monkey out of the game for at least 16 years now working as a janitor, so I've got no investment in any of this shit either way; I do however understand enough of the technology to know that it would be impossible to replace me with a robot. HA!)

There goes some of my productivity for the week.

That's disingenuous and you know it.

You and your friends putting on an art show locally of your own works is in no way comparable to somebody paying to travel to another continent and get a hotel room so that they can go to the Louvre.

Really?

That's the sum total of your take on it? A complaint about 'replacing' classics? No film maker is trying to 'replace' the classics, they are trying to add to the ongoing collection or artistic endeavors that humanity is creating.

The Godfather and A Clockwork Orange literally started as a pile of text on paper.

It all starts as text. Everything. If it's considered good enough by enough people then it will get made into a movie.
Sure, it might be a low budget movie the first time, but if that is received well enough maybe the next time it will get a higher budget production.

Nobody gets to start at the top, and if people want variety outside of the Corporatist sphere then they will need to DIY that shit into existence.

All the software do make a movie for free already exists, the industry standards used by the major studios are literally FOSS forks.
You don't need to make anything but raw content to put into the software, and 10 year old surplus computers are capable of running it all.

Every person that wants to make a movie has an HD camera in their pocket already.

You're overcomplicating the solution to the problem.

Or they can put on a play.

If someone's desire is out of their reach when it comes to making art then they need to either recruit people to help them or work within their means.

As OP said, the story can be a .txt file, if the creator does not have the capacity to make it into a movie they can leave that to someone who can and write the next .txt file.

Nope, you got it.

If people don't want Corporatist bullshit then they should not pay for corporatist bullshit.

If people want to make a movie using their own story and vision then they can...

Start with a .txt file.

Make a storyboard.

Shoot it using the camera they have.

Draw and render whatever they can't shoot IRL in free open source software on the computer the have (look at what they made in 1995, garbage computers running Linux nowadays can outperform what they had easily).

Composite / edit / render it in free open source software.

Do it at your own pace, on your own time. If others like your vision they can choose to help.

Release it in any and all formats, for free.

Oh, wait, we _don't_ live in a communist utopia....

Put it up for viewing at a reasonable price and hope that you get enough of a return to keep doing it.

Be an artist.

Umm...

Pretty much every single web-based enterprise software as a service is already running in Linux isn't it?

The entirety of Gmail and all it's tools as the primary example.

Solar panels over the roads, same sort of EMF trackers for toll roads, to be honest I think working out the economics of it would be the easy part.

If they bypass using copper entirely and use carbon based conductors sourced via solar powered atmospheric carbon sequestration techniques we _could_ _possibly_ turn the roads into a literal network of electrical storage, distribution, and charging. Lots of technical hurdles and scaling issues, but I think the chemistry and physics could allow it.

Soulseek is so much better.

Start making nice kid leather ear pads for over the ear headphones.

This is how you change the system.

Just don't play their game by their rules.

Make something, sell it yourself; no middlemen.