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  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    It pisses me off when people reduce art to logic or magic. Art isn't a science nor is it mystical. The artist is beholden to their perception and experiences of the world and that influencess their art. When people talk about "soul" what they really mean is the personal feeling you get from good art that shows you someones unique perception of the world. You are almost getting a peak through someone elses eyes. This provides a unique connection to another human being. It's that feelng of "Oh, so that's what I look like to you, ha ha." it gives you a taste of someone elses mind.

    That's why AI sucks and I hope it only gets used for jokes and curiosity. Because you can't get someone elses perspective from an algorithm that mashes up and replicates from others.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      The artist is beholden to their perception and experiences of the world and that influencess their art. When people talk about “soul” what they really mean is the personal feeling you get from good art that shows you someones unique perseption of the world. You are almost getting a peak through someone elses eyes. This provides a unique connection to another human being. It’s that feelng of “Oh, so that’s what I look like to you, ha ha.” it gives you a taste of someone elses mind.

      A lot of consumers don't want that. They want infinite dudebro power fantasies where the insert-dudebro-ego-here character receives infinite sex and validation from a rotating cast of waifus that vary only in hair color and combination of dudebro approved body types and dudebro-approved personality quirks.

      I dare suspect that if human creativity was driven almost entirely out of fiction because of chatbot related technology, such consumers would be as indifferent to that as they were to the mass firing of professional script writers after the strike made television that much more lazy, toxic, and trashy over time.