TBH, I am not sure that most people would recognize "art" if you hit them in the face with it. But this has always been true, I think.
I foresee a future where everything has been bent, folded, stapled, and mutilated to death by AI... and the mass of people will still consume it and think it is at least okay. Because the immediate satiati…
TBH, I am not sure that most people would recognize "art" if you hit them in the face with it. But this has always been true, I think.
I foresee a future where everything has been bent, folded, stapled, and mutilated to death by AI... and the mass of people will still consume it and think it is at least okay. Because the immediate satiation of their boredom, need for entertainment is what motivates.
I think that the root of your objection, Sonny, is that an actual human spent the time and effort and the accrued experience, mediated by (for lack of a better term) their humanity and created something out of their obsession/love/hatred that was unique, that spoke to others, that was an authentic human statement about something--and a computer comes along and appropriates it with (in comparison) basically little effort, no actual thought--none of the things that drove the human to do it in the first place.
TBH, I am not sure that most people would recognize "art" if you hit them in the face with it. But this has always been true, I think.
I foresee a future where everything has been bent, folded, stapled, and mutilated to death by AI... and the mass of people will still consume it and think it is at least okay. Because the immediate satiation of their boredom, need for entertainment is what motivates.
I think that the root of your objection, Sonny, is that an actual human spent the time and effort and the accrued experience, mediated by (for lack of a better term) their humanity and created something out of their obsession/love/hatred that was unique, that spoke to others, that was an authentic human statement about something--and a computer comes along and appropriates it with (in comparison) basically little effort, no actual thought--none of the things that drove the human to do it in the first place.
It has become a widget, stamped out by a machine.
It is about the removal of humanity.