Logging my random thoughts and opinions.

on generative (art) AI

[update] : this is a much deeper essay on the same matter. Also a bookmark – I shall read this more carefully later.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/why-ai-isnt-going-to-make-art

NEGATIVE

Some people could argue that in x years the generated “arts” will be indistinguishable from human’s and you as the consumer don’t care what’s behind the work because it’s all the same to you.

Let’s assume that’s true: you can’t tell a generated art from a human-made in the year 2040, here is some of my points why we shouldn’t die on that hill.

WHY THE FUCK SHOULD MACHINE CREATE ART FOR YOU?

ask your fucking self, do you want to live in a future like that? Where people are excluded from creation? Where people only care about consuming the product, instead of appreciating the sublimity of human touch?

It’s important that art people get rewarded by their creation. If you have money to spend, spend it on real artists instead of the crippy prompts.

ART IS NO PRODUCT, YOU DESERVE BETTER

If I, the consumer, am to pay for the arts (I certainly am), I want my money goes to a individual human artists rather than than a big tech. We deserve better, they deserve better.

I put my money where my mouth is.

NEUTRAL

As far as I understand the technology, the current generative AIs are empiricism, that is, the AIs never transcend what they are trained upon.

Do human art creation transcend the sum of reality and experience? Are we essentially state machines? That’s for another nihilistic debate.

POSITIVE

I’m yet to be convinced of the positive side of generative arts. I do have some positive comments on other types of GAIs though.