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by NikolaNovak 1041 days ago
We'll see where it shakes out when it comes to art.

Even in myself I'm finding curious emotional responses: I'm now growing less interested in some of the more synthesized / formulaic types of music, and more interested in live performances / recording with real instruments. For visual art that is art, that to me usually needs some human emotion, message, story, path. For "art" that is placeholder or functional, yeah a lot of that may get replaced by AI.

My point to this particular article is though, if their sum contribution to the world is the analogue of:

1. Short one-sentence prompt to AI that's basically "piano, but tear-shaped"

2. 37 paragraphs of self-aggrandizing meaningless prose that actively deceives on the accomplishment and status of the thing

Then it's not "human creativity" as far as I'm concerned, or at least not one that I want to actively encourage (and in fact, as I mentioned, I want to actively discourage / not partake in).

In other words, I'm not saying AI should be doing the kind of things exemplified in that article rather than humans. I'm saying I don't want to see / partake those kinds of things [if not quite "they shouldn't exist":], and it's partially because they don't contribute any human creativity, as far as I'm concerned. That's very different from "not seeing value in human creativity", so I think we may have misunderstood each other there?

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I find myself feeling some of the same things you describe. I don't really relate with the synth/formulaic music part, to me that's just another interesting form of human expression. But I guess that just goes to show how we all see the line in very different places; I think even my own opinions on this are sometimes inconsistent with each other.

But you're right, we probably misunderstood each other there. You definitely won the argument though :)