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I think this misses this biggest cultural revolution to happen in decades, which is AI assisted art and creativity. It’s been ages since I saw a new paradigm i

I think this misses this biggest cultural revolution to happen in decades, which is AI assisted art and creativity. It’s been ages since I saw a new paradigm in art that really caught my attention. It seems like elite artists have not had much to say for a few decades aside from navel gazing. Suddenly we have these machines that can produce high quality finished pieces out of our vague whims. With it has come an outpouring of the bizarre and humorous, a total democratization where ideas are no longer limited by execution. Culture is only stuck if you look at the most globalized corporate universal customer version of it. Underneath that we have the revolution of the individual and the niche where anyone can access an audience.

nottorp 4y ago
Whats the difference between the current “AI” hype and a religion?
- azangru 4y ago
  What's the similarity?:-) In the current AI hype, you can interact with the AI.
  - CRConrad 4y ago
    Still, what's the diff? The religious types have always claimed to be able to interact with their deities. (Seems to me the only difference is which party does the hallucinating.)
- dougmwne 4y ago
  For the most part there seems to be no connection at all. This is a new and interesting tool that anyone can go use in whatever way they see for to improve their creative or productive process. I used it this week to teach me some of the fine points of double entry bookkeeping for a project without having to go seek out an accounting course. There does seems to be a small number of AI maximalists who think the Singularity is going to create a kind of digital god. I rather expect they will be disappointed.
skinpop 4y ago
all I've seen from AI assisted art is endless variation of what's already out there. form remains the same. maybe it's just me but isn't it weird how technologies that supposedly are democratizing seldom seem to be emancipatory? i fear AI will only make culture and art more standardized, more of an industry. But I think AI can be a revolution in the sense that it will lead people to think hard about what kind of art AI can't do, and that will hopefully get us back to doing, you know, actual art.
- throwaway4aday 4y ago
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nottorp 4y ago

Whats the difference between the current “AI” hype and a religion?

azangru 4y ago
What's the similarity?:-) In the current AI hype, you can interact with the AI.
- CRConrad 4y ago
  Still, what's the diff? The religious types have always claimed to be able to interact with their deities. (Seems to me the only difference is which party does the hallucinating.)
dougmwne 4y ago
For the most part there seems to be no connection at all. This is a new and interesting tool that anyone can go use in whatever way they see for to improve their creative or productive process. I used it this week to teach me some of the fine points of double entry bookkeeping for a project without having to go seek out an accounting course. There does seems to be a small number of AI maximalists who think the Singularity is going to create a kind of digital god. I rather expect they will be disappointed.

skinpop 4y ago

all I've seen from AI assisted art is endless variation of what's already out there. form remains the same. maybe it's just me but isn't it weird how technologies that supposedly are democratizing seldom seem to be emancipatory? i fear AI will only make culture and art more standardized, more of an industry. But I think AI can be a revolution in the sense that it will lead people to think hard about what kind of art AI can't do, and that will hopefully get us back to doing, you know, actual art.

throwaway4aday 4y ago
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