That fundamentally assumes the exact model used today for, and let’s be clear on this, picking a 16-bit integer, will never be improved upon. It also assumes that even though humans are able to slap two things together and sometimes, often by accident, make it better than the sum of its parts…a machine manipulating integers cannot do the same. It is fundamentally impossible for ai to synthesize anything…except that’s exactly what it’s doing.
There seems to be some other argument going on up above which is about how the actual computation itself can’t compete but that also doesn’t hold water. Ok, a computer is xor-ing things rather than chemical juice and action potentials. But that’s super low level. What it sure appears to be doing is taking things it’s seen as input data and generating variations on that…which humans also do. All art is theft. I just listened to a podcast from an author saying they hadn’t realized this children’s book from when they were 8 impacted their story design when they were 35, and yet now that they’ve reread it they immediately see that they basically stole pieces from the children’s story wholesale.
Finally you have this intent thing in here. Can’t argue that at present there isn’t an intent. But that has never before been a restriction on whether something is art. Plenty of soulless trash is called art. Why is the fruit bowl considered art? But even past that there’s an entirely opposing view where you shouldn’t care what the author thought, making something. What matters is what you think, consuming that thing. If I look at an AI drawing and it sparks some emotional resonance, who is anyone else to say it isn’t important art to me?
I’m not going to argue that there are no issues with ai art today or that the quality is low, but folks in the Lemmy echo chamber are putting human-produced art in an inconceivably high pedestal that cannot possibly stand the test of time.
That fundamentally assumes the exact model used today for, and let’s be clear on this, picking a 16-bit integer, will never be improved upon. It also assumes that even though humans are able to slap two things together and sometimes, often by accident, make it better than the sum of its parts…a machine manipulating integers cannot do the same. It is fundamentally impossible for ai to synthesize anything…except that’s exactly what it’s doing.
There seems to be some other argument going on up above which is about how the actual computation itself can’t compete but that also doesn’t hold water. Ok, a computer is xor-ing things rather than chemical juice and action potentials. But that’s super low level. What it sure appears to be doing is taking things it’s seen as input data and generating variations on that…which humans also do. All art is theft. I just listened to a podcast from an author saying they hadn’t realized this children’s book from when they were 8 impacted their story design when they were 35, and yet now that they’ve reread it they immediately see that they basically stole pieces from the children’s story wholesale.
Finally you have this intent thing in here. Can’t argue that at present there isn’t an intent. But that has never before been a restriction on whether something is art. Plenty of soulless trash is called art. Why is the fruit bowl considered art? But even past that there’s an entirely opposing view where you shouldn’t care what the author thought, making something. What matters is what you think, consuming that thing. If I look at an AI drawing and it sparks some emotional resonance, who is anyone else to say it isn’t important art to me?
I’m not going to argue that there are no issues with ai art today or that the quality is low, but folks in the Lemmy echo chamber are putting human-produced art in an inconceivably high pedestal that cannot possibly stand the test of time.