• oatscoop@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      Any work made to convey a concept and/or emotion can be art. I’d throw in “intent”, having “deeper meaning”, and the context of its creation to distinguish between an accounting spreadsheet and art.

      The problem with AI “art” is it’s produced by something that isn’t sentient and is incapable of original thought. AI doesn’t understand intent, context, emotion, or even the most basic concepts behind the prompt or the end result. Its “art” is merely a mashup of ideas stolen from countless works of actual, original art run through an esoteric logic network.

      AI can serve as a tool to create art of course, but the further removed from the process a human is the less the end result can truly be considered “art”.

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        That’s like saying photoshop doesn’t understand the context and the meaning of art.

        “Only physically painted art is art”.

        Using AI to achieve an concrete piece of art can be pretty complex and surely the artist can create something with an intended meaning with it.

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      i won’t, but art has intent. AI doesn’t.

      Pollock’s paintings are art. a bunch of paint buckets falling on a canvas in an earthquake wouldn’t make art, even if it resembled Pollock’s paintings. there’s no intent behind it. no artist.

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        The intent comes from the person who writes the prompt and selects/refines the most fitting image it makes

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          that’s like me intending for it to rain and when it eventually would, claiming i made it rain because i intended for it.

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            Yes, but where do you draw a line in AI of having an intent. Surely AGI has intent but you say current AIs do not.

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              4 months ago

              yes because there is no intelligence. AI is a misnomer. intent needs intelligence.

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                How can you tell there is no intelligence? If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, why is it not a duck?

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                  because if you teach me to pronounce some japanese words without teaching me what it means, i may say them perfectly, and even trick some people who don’t see my face into thinking I’m speaking native japanese, even though i don’t know what the fuck I’m saying. the fact that i tricked some people into thinking otherwise does not make me a japanese person.