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It seems, though I have no way of knowing, that these clips were conceived by a human and realized using AI tools. How would you feel if these were presented a
by 0xfaded 1y ago
It seems, though I have no way of knowing, that these clips were conceived by a human and realized using AI tools.
How would you feel if these were presented amongst a sea of other clips that were prompted by "create a short video that captures the attention of a 25-30yo male", presumably in the hope of syphoning a few cents from Instagram?
I recently bought a book to read on a flight, and it was the first time it occured to me there was no way to verify the thing was written by a human other than to check that it was published before ~2023. Part of what I, at least, feel when reading a book is a connection to another human and our shared experience that lead them to tell their story. For me this experience is steeply cheapened by the thought that that connection might not be with a human.
I feel similarly about the Ghibli style transfer craze. AI generated images may be "cool", but you no longer know if you're connecting to an artist. At least in the case of Ghibli, their work is well known so it's possible to tell. Where's the room for human creatives to create new original art styles? The rightful default assumption is that anything post 2023 came out of a model as some mash-up of inputs stolen from anonymous no-names.
FWIW, this is coming from a non-creative atheist who has long belived humans are nothing more than probabilistic biological machines.
- userbinator 1y agoKeep in mind that even with AI-generated content, a human ultimately came up with the idea and told the AI to do it.
- pona-a 1y agoBut what is this idea the human is realizing? With most tools, it's an indescribable essence of a work that, even if you could extract it from the author's mind at that point, would be different from the end result—not because it's divorced from its platonic form, but because the labor itself develops it. These generators are creative Speakwrites that strip that element of thought, only padding out a short core description with cliché. The resulting work doesn't have any layers of subtext or intentionality; it can be fully summarized by its prompt.
- urbandw311er 1y agoAnd the thousands of other unpaid humans who came up with the ideas and creative content in the training data.