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Being able to imitate Monet doesn't make you Monet. AI can't create anything original.
by Geee 5mo ago
Being able to imitate Monet doesn't make you Monet. AI can't create anything original.
- setopt 5mo agoDefine «original». Under many definitions, where novel composition of existing knowledge or techniques is counted, it certainly can.
- Geee 5mo agoWell, there's the Einstein test: can AI figure out general relativity if it's trained only on knowledge up to 1915 or so, before it was discovered. Similarly, you could do a Monet test: train AI on everything before Monet and try to get it to create paintings similar to Monet. Original is something that is out of the data distribution. AI can't do anything original, because it's job is to imitate the data distribution. Originality in itself is not hard, because pure noise is original. It should be original and beautiful.
- sd9 5mo agoThis is a real Monet.
- Geee 5mo agoI know, but it could be AI-generated as well, because people can't tell them apart. The point was that even if AI could imitate Monet perfectly, it's not Monet. It's a worthless test.
- dormento 5mo agoI loathe the blasted copyright washing machine as much as the next intellectually honest person, but: > AI can't create anything original. Can we? I mean, don't we base our output on experience and reprocess references + memories of things past to create what we deem as "new"?
- Geee 5mo agoMany artists have a distinct, original style. Originality is the ability to create novelty in a way which is aesthetically pleasing. I've yet to see AI create a single distinct style which is beautiful.
- JKCalhoun 5mo agoIn my experience, an artist's original style arrives more or less from the artist having imitated and subsumed bits and pieces from other artists over the course of their artistic pursuit.
- scrumper 5mo agoIt isn't beautiful at all, nauseating uncanny valley stuff in my opinion, but AI images do have a style (or rather one of a number of idiosyncratic styles.) The sort of glossiness and unsettling focus in photorealistic images; the terrifying dreamlike surreality of more impressionist graphics; even the cartoony style used in corporate infographics. They're all quite distinctive to me at least and certainly aren't anything a human would produce. You can see the "influences" (i.e. stolen training data) but it really has come up with something itself. Not that I think it should have. Kill it with fire and EMPs.
- Geee 5mo agoTrue. AI does have a style but it's more of a bug than a feature.
- pixel_popping 5mo agoAI can absolutely create an original book, absurdly false.