Statue Unveiled in NYC Memorializing What Has Been Called a“Holocaust” of Artists Due to AI Art

By S. Mazotes, Published June 16th, 2024

New York's Deputy Chief Diversity Officer (salary of $167,000), Tyshahosaquesha Adams, unveiled a statue in New York City last Sunday afternoon memoriallizing artists that have lost their jobs due to AI art. Titled "AI holocaust", the creator, Artistic Journalist Stephen Mazotes, spoke to gazing onlookers. He described this mass loss of the workforce as a “ second holocaust”. He estimates that somewhere between three hundred thousand, to as high as six million jobs have been lost since the creation of AI art.

The following is what's written:

“First they came for the bathroom attendants, and I did not speak out because I was not a bathroom attendant.

Then they came for the cashiers, and I did not speak out because I was not a cashier.

Then they came for the bread wrappers who put the twist ties on the plastic bagged loaves of bread, and I did not speak out because I was not a bread wrapper.

Then they came for the fruit packing facility workers who put the P L U stickers on fruit, and I did not speak out because I was not a fruit packing facility worker.

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”

A YouTube user has released an audio rendition of the haunting pastiche etched into stone. It is embedded below.