AI Art
Humans collaborating with machines to create amazing things of beauty.
Jenny Nicholson and
AI Art
"Consciousness must necessarily play a role in both the creation and the consumption of art. Otherwise, there is nothing to communicate. Technological machines running on algorithmic processes do not think, feel or experience. Therefore, they have nothing to communicate about what it is like to be."
-Steve Sangapore
starting to enter AI-native media territory.
The author noted how GPT-3 could generate poetic text, but ChatGPT has since lost that ability.
We’ve seen a fair bit of degradation in models over time. The biggest factor is that its developers are optimizing for certain use cases (eg friendly professional chat bot). So it’s not just AI, it’s AI + the founder vision that will dictate its impact.
Also: How long will that be the case? When will AI evolve out of its developers influence?
Imagine creating an entire painting by typing a few sentences.
AI tools like Stable Diffusion will forever change how people create art.
But will AI help or hurt artists?
And what lessons can we learn from history on how this will play... See more
anxiety 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
super interesting artist working in generative AI
“An engine for the imagination”: an interview with David Holz, CEO of AI image generator Midjourney
James Vincenttheverge.com
