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Well, the sculpture is a fiction, and this AI generated image is a fiction - what's wrong with acknowledging that these fictions are all we have? Life is a col
by fit2rule 6y ago
Well, the sculpture is a fiction, and this AI generated image is a fiction - what's wrong with acknowledging that these fictions are all we have? Life is a collection of these facsimiles.
- darkerside 6y agoAcknowledging that is fine. Saying that makes further conversation irrelevant moves us in the wrong direction as a society. Money is a fiction, history is a fiction, most scientific concepts eventually become fiction at a low enough level. And look at the world we've built on top of those fictions. It may not be perfect but it is undeniably meaningful.
- fit2rule 6y agoHow useful is it, then, to say .. "this is not accurate" .. well, there is no way to be sure. Ever. Unless .. you've got a time machine?
- darkerside 6y agoYou'll never know with certainty, but you can certainly know more than you do now. But you won't if you don't pursue the truth, and it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. As I said in another post, maybe it's possible to sequence DNA of the emperor or a collection of contemporary subjects, determine an approximate ethnic makeup, and revise the images based on that. Or, we can just assume we are already correct because we'll never know anyway.