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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

  • kevinsky@feddit.nl
    1·
    1 hour ago

    It’s similar to AI in that it decreases the mechanical effort one needs to create content

    I get that you mean this from the perspective of the user, but you can’t ignore they are fixing to restart disused nuclear power plants to sustain the required computational power and the datacenters creating drinkingwater supply problems left and right.

    Photography never had anywhere near the societarial cost that AI has.

    I would challenge anyone who thinks all AI creations are nothing but slop to create something themselves equal to or better than some of the better works I’ve seen. Similar to a challenge of a traditional painter to create a compelling photographic composition.

    There’ll always be a massive difference to me looking at something that comes from a logic machine and something that comes from a human. It’s not always about details and graphical fidelity. It’s why I have my 4 year old niece’s doodles on my fridge, instead of asking an AI to improve them and hang those instead.

    • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      14 minutes ago

      I think we’re having two discussions. There is the discussion about whether or not media created using a neural network with a human prompting it can be considered art. Hypothetically an individual could design, train, and prompt a NN including creating the dataset themselves it was trained on. Would that also be discredited just for the fact part of their process used a NN? What if one also used all clean carbon neutral energy to run and train their NN?

      The other discussion is about the issues surrounding people’s current choices on how to develop neural networks. I guess you could link them together and say because of these issues anything created using these tools is not art. It would beg the hypothetical of if it would be art if these issues were not there.