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I can't imagine what goes through the head of someone who thinks they don't have the right to say no. They don't have the right to be listened to or the right t

I can't imagine what goes through the head of someone who thinks they don't have the right to say no. They don't have the right to be listened to or the right to use state power to enforce a colloquial notion of IP and rights with no basis in law or fact, but they surely have the right to say "No!" In all seriousness, they're afraid because they aren't very pleasant. AI will write things people will like and enjoy hearing. Preachy artists these days just make works they think people ought to want, and ought to like. Getting moralism out of art will be a great technological accomplishment.

eropple 3y ago
Moralism! In art! Heaven forfend. How dare that art have a message, right? Never in history, not once, before the Woke Tens and, I guess, the Woker Twenties did somebody have an opinion and encode it in allegory. It is a purely novel phenomenon and all known media before this dark age was absolutely without message and without any editorial lens to determine what is and is not to be depicted--for that, of course, would communicate values and ideas, and art simply did not do such a thing. More seriously: if you have this attitude for-reals and aren't Poe's Lawing me, perhaps you need a little more preaching aimed your way because your conception of art and the civic society is the closest thing I can think of to a humanities position being objectively wrong. The ideological soma of agree-with-you AI being desirable is scary enough stuff. Removing communication from art being a "great technological accomplishment" is fucking dystopic.
CatWChainsaw 3y ago
I want to see the world where this happens, where everything that made life enjoyable is corporatized, standardized, optimized, one-dimensionalized. Since it will happen over the course of your lifetime, you'll get to see it happen - as things that were fulfilling cease to be, an ennui you can't escape sets in because you built every wall of your cage one by one, and all you can do is regret. And then the Black Mirror helmet comes off your head, everyone else points and laughs at you, and then puts the helmet back on.

eropple 3y ago

Moralism! In art! Heaven forfend. How dare that art have a message, right? Never in history, not once, before the Woke Tens and, I guess, the Woker Twenties did somebody have an opinion and encode it in allegory. It is a purely novel phenomenon and all known media before this dark age was absolutely without message and without any editorial lens to determine what is and is not to be depicted--for that, of course, would communicate values and ideas, and art simply did not do such a thing. More seriously: if you have this attitude for-reals and aren't Poe's Lawing me, perhaps you need a little more preaching aimed your way because your conception of art and the civic society is the closest thing I can think of to a humanities position being objectively wrong. The ideological soma of agree-with-you AI being desirable is scary enough stuff. Removing communication from art being a "great technological accomplishment" is fucking dystopic.

CatWChainsaw 3y ago

I want to see the world where this happens, where everything that made life enjoyable is corporatized, standardized, optimized, one-dimensionalized. Since it will happen over the course of your lifetime, you'll get to see it happen - as things that were fulfilling cease to be, an ennui you can't escape sets in because you built every wall of your cage one by one, and all you can do is regret. And then the Black Mirror helmet comes off your head, everyone else points and laughs at you, and then puts the helmet back on.