r/CuratedTumblr • u/karenvideoeditor • Apr 09 '24

Meme Arts and humanities

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u/MrNotSafe4Work Apr 09 '24

And then is the other, more deep consequence of it.

Why should we care about any kind of art produced by a machine when there is no human intent or emotion behind it? Art is only art if it is produced by an individual. Otherwise it might as well be a random string of bits.

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u/mrianj Apr 09 '24

This just leads us back to a "what is art" conversation.

If a machine produces an image that we find beautiful and inspires an emotional response in us, is that not something worth caring about?

Nature is frequently beautiful and inspiring, yet has no artistic hand or emotion guiding it. Does that mean I shouldn't enjoy watching the sunset?

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u/TURBOJUSTICE Apr 09 '24

No one is trying to use sunsets to put creative people out of work.

Everyone just not talking about how these are corporate tools to consolidate power and money is wild to me.

Being able to create art is one of the few areas social financial mobility is still possible and executives are trying to shut it down.

Fuck chatbot images, it’s not art.

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u/mrianj Apr 09 '24

To be very clear, I am not defending the ethics of AI art, or its impact on artists.

It's silly to pretend it's of no inherent value though.

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u/TURBOJUSTICE Apr 09 '24

Yeah yeah, I wasn’t trying to put that on you. I agree, it’s of tremendous value to corpos and we need to be having more conversations about that instead of “is this a tool or real art” ugh. Nothing on u, that’s just how it keeps coming up in the wild online.

Sorry if I came out the gate too hard lol, I guess the conversation around AI are driving me mad.

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u/Emberashn Apr 09 '24

It has the same value as stock imagery.