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I hate it but we’re entering a cat and mouse game for artists of all mediums, if you have any interest in distinguishing yourself from the slop machine you’re going to need to veer away from commercialist aesthetic. It’s not about outsmarting a machine, but embracing the humanity of experimentalism.
maxread.info Max Read @maxread.info · Nov 25
people "prefer" a.i. art because people "prefer" bad art
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What was more interesting to me is that it seemed pretty easy, going over the images, to pick out original work by esteemed human artists, but much harder to distinguish between human- and A.I.-generated from the mass of images left over. Put another way, I rarely wondered if the good art was generated by A.I. prompting, but I was often uncertain if the bad art (of which there was a lot) was made by human or LLM. Galler’s image of the riverside cafe above is slop any way you cut it--art for a dentist’s office--but at a glance, on a computer screen, I have no definitive way of telling if it’s slop painted by a hack or prompted by an Astral Codex Ten subscriber. In fact, the dental-office “badness” of so much of the A.I. art is precisely why I don’t dispute Alexander’s assertion that people preferred it. Like any LLM output, A.I.-generated images are designed to please, not to provoke. I’ve argued before that these images are, by their nature, almost unavoidably kitsch--comforting, straightforward, accessible, flattering. And people love kitsch! Ah, you say you love art, and yet you cannot tell which anime girl has been generated by A.I. and which one was drawn in Adobe Illustrator! One strange feature of the A.I. boom has been the way the technology has become cathected with resentful fantasies of revenge and righteous settlement, as John Herrman has written: And in what is perhaps the genre’s defining post, a collage of cartoonish AI-generated bikini-clad women is tagged with the caption “It is SO over.” The “it” here wasn’t clearly defined — Women? Human desire? Some sort of incel concept of the sexual economy? — but viewers got the idea: Whoever or whatever this odd internet stranger didn’t like, AI was coming for it. It’s AI as a reckoning, a punisher, a revealer of frauds. It’s AI as a future vindicator of their hunches about how the world works, and as an extension of their politics. It’s AI as a cleansing force that humbles your enemies and proves you right — AI as economic rapture. It’s AI as your army-in-waiting just over the horizon, your punishing angel, or maybe just as the thing that’s going to embarrass the people who annoy you online. A lot of sunnier AI speculation is clearly wish fulfillment, and so is this. AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up. In the end Alexander’s test seems like a mild version of this same impulse, in which A.I. “objectively” reveals taste and discernment and critical engagement as mere social strategies for establishing dominance over “low-status” “ordinary people.” In some sense I am even sympathetic to this impulse; it’s not like taste has never been used to draw boundaries before. But when you abandon discernment and judgment for revealed preference you end up doing the same thing a large language model does--taking the safest and least surprising path at all times.
November 25, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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November 22, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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how are we quitting people pleasing, burnout and hyper productivity in 2025?
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November 21, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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hello earthlings
November 20, 2024 at 11:42 PM