Like, this highly tailored aesthetic is really interesting. The cohesive nature of the places being created, and the visuals that feel of the past but also unachievable by the era. Like, yeah, this guy typed a bunch of words into a text prompt, but its a highly curated visual style. Could this have been created without AI? Yeah totally. I think the weirdness of AI adds to the surrealist nature of it all. IDK.
I'm very conflicted about AI. Our neoliberal capitalist system is highly incompatible with it. Its potential is squandered by capitalism's constraints. Its built on other peoples labor, it runs in conflict with intellectual property rights. Its requirements for massive datasets ensures the infringement on those rights. The grievances are real and valid. The contradictions are leading to the collapse of companies like OpenAI, and yet it thrives in the open source community. Its environmental impacts are likely worse then the crypo industry.
Yet I can't help but see stuff like this and think its cool.
I mean on the one hand it erodes all creative fields as a viable profession for actual humans, makes a mockery of that creativity by digesting and regurgitating their work for secondary consumption like a fly and it lights a section of the the rainforest on fire every time a big red button is pushed. But on the other hand you really really like the treats.
Yeah, that's what I said. I do feel that the works being created by this person are edited, curated, and authorial, in the way any creative individual would be when producing art. It's the intersection of the incentives of capitalism that pervert this process of creative expression, and regardless of the artistic eye being applied in the process this person undertakes, it is still a work of exploitation in the Marxian sense.
I feel like we need to take everyone who actually enjoys AI art, saw off the tops of their craniums and apply stimulation notes directly to the novelty and pleasure centres of their brains for the rest of their happy lives. I don’t see a functional difference between that and the enjoyment of art that’s bereft of any human involvement.