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> Now notice that you are being watched. The image is watching you look at it. It knows what it is doing. That's when I stopped reading
by abstractspoon 1mo ago
> Now notice that you are being watched. The image is watching you look at it. It knows what it is doing.
That's when I stopped reading
- tasuki 1mo agoI had a similar reaction. If someone could chime in and explain how this isn't absolute nonsense, I'd be grateful.
- 3-cheese-sundae 1mo agoIf the parent had kept reading, they might have discovered the retroactive explanation of that sentence: "This is the form’s real operation. Deadpan does not convince you it is neutral. It performs neutrality in a way that lets you enjoy both the performance and your awareness of it. You are in on the joke. The image says it didn’t choose, and you know it chose, and both of you agree to pretend otherwise because the pretence produces something valuable: attention."
- MarkusQ 1mo agoSo, normal art-writing nonsense. Or maybe I should say that, in presenting the problematic sentence first, and the putative "retroactive explanation" some distance later, the author has engaged in a form of dialectic which invites the reader to ask the question for themselves, or, in presuming the answer, become part of the joke.
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- NBJack 1mo agoThat only makes it worse.
- girvo 1mo agoI can’t tell if it’s just normal art-writing nonsense or AI-helped nonsense anymore
- Isamu 1mo agoAI-helped nonsense is nowhere near a peak, I wish I could place a bet on the ascendancy of AI-assisted nonsense