what is art?

almost everything mimics or remixes what already existed in culture (or what already exists on the internet). All those famous names of artists and writers you know were not constantly making original choices filled with divine inspiration denied to AI. Much like how Roger Federer won only 54% of points across all the professional matches he played... See more

The more choices someone makes in a work’s creation, the more likely it is to be viewed as making art.

GenerativeAI can conjure up a tree if you ask for one, but it will come from the commonality of attributes across the trees in the model’s training data. Under the hood, large language models (LLMs) and generative media models are trained on massive amounts of data to help predict a sequence of words or pixels based on the prompt you provide. So, i... See more

Casey Reas: The Thing that Makes the Thing is More Interesting than the Thing

First comes the awe: can you believe this? Look at this video of a man running backwards on a treadmill!

Then, the panic: given art's decidedly specific turn to "man in sweats running backwards on treadmill" motifs, will art as we know it become obsolete?

Absolutely not.

Culture, or Art, is the response to society. The deviation.