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Human art can exist without anything prior. For example, I highly doubt the creators of cave paintings traveled the world to see other such work before doing th
by chx 2y ago
Human art can exist without anything prior. For example, I highly doubt the creators of cave paintings traveled the world to see other such work before doing theirs. But you could look at impressionism or pointillism for that matter.
AI can not.
Indeed, the problem is the utter unoriginality of the current wave of AI. Literally the only thing it can do is to produce the next token which is the most likely to be in the training set.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoI doubt the creators of cave paintings stayed their entire lives in that cave. One presumes they saw animals. Could an agentic AI generate a cave painting if you restricted it to training data of animals and also limited its ability to painting with primitive tools? Sure, why not?
- dahart 2y agoWhat is this ‘agentic AI’ you speak of? There’s no such thing to date. There is no AI yet that can train on pictures of animals and then decide to produce cave paintings. If you limit the output to be produced only with primitive tools, then the AI is not agentic, you’re just making a fixed-function paint machine.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoThere is no such thing, but cave paintings are also not relevant to what people do with diffusion AI. My argument is that art that diverges from reality is largely a function of path dependence and tooling more so than creative choice.