Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
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Welcome to the semantic apocalypse
If tomorrow's society becomes one chock full o' AI-made drivel, culture shall respond in kind. It can't do anything but. So it has always been and so it shall always be.
Once videos and movies start to look like glossy, melting clay, maybe artists will respond by making stuff that's robotic. Or poorly made on purpose. If the machines start acting m... See more
Once videos and movies start to look like glossy, melting clay, maybe artists will respond by making stuff that's robotic. Or poorly made on purpose. If the machines start acting m... See more
Alex Dobrenko` • Will AI Replace the Artist?
But what is happening now isn't just automation replacing routine tasks. We really do have a restructuring of how value is created and distributed. Unlike previous technological revolutions that primarily transformed physical production, AI transforms meaning-making itself, changing how we create and distribute value. The Ghibli AI trend is a perfe... See more
Kyla Scanlon • Studio Ghibli AI, Classified Leaks, and the Context Shift
You could see AI making an exact replica of The Room and it having none of the value, because it wasn't made by someone. Because there was no human-led deviation between what was attempted and what was made. That deviation, in art and in life, is what makes us so damn human.
Alex Dobrenko` • Will AI Replace the Artist?
This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
the worst of all possible worlds: generative AI manages to pollute the internet with cheap synthetic data, manages to make being a human artist / creator harder