Coca-Cola’s new holiday ad turned me off of AI-generated art completely
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Coca-Cola’s new holiday ad turned me off of AI-generated art completely
But I’m also beginning to think that generative AI shouldn’t even be considered a creative tool at all and I think we may have really gotten off on the wrong foot by talking about it like one. I’m willing to go so far as to say generative AI, as it currently exists, is just productivity software. Case in point, Adobe’s Firefly.
... See moreanxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic.
social media is robotic, formulaic. everything looks the same. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
what a computer can never reproduce is organic human emotion. it cannot recreate authenticity.
-paraphrased from Mango Street
But it’s not the image that you see,” Shan continues. “It’s the human emotion. It’s the feeling evoked in the audience.”
When I think about art and its relationship with generative AI, I find myself caught in a loop. If art is the human idea, then wouldn’t a human, typing a prompt into something like Midjourney, count as the human effort within the
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