When the Teacher Becomes the Believer: Andrew Price's AI Turn

Not all defections carry equal weight. A corporation adding AI to its pipeline is a business decision subject to the usual critique. An educator whose entire authority derived from teaching the value of craft making the opposite choice is something more corrosive — it disrupts the frame, not just the position. Andrew Price's tutorials didn't just explain Blender; they argued, implicitly and constantly, that learning to understand what you were doing produced better artists and better work. The r/ArtistHate characterization of him as having "gone full AI Bro" ^[1] is…