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by Retric 653 days ago
I was making an observation not an argument.

With hundreds of millions of such images someone is going to feel something when looking at some of them. But so far I don’t which seems kind of odd.

Which is why I was asking if you feel anything looking at those specific images on their home page?

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No I don't feel anything. But it's very rare for me to feel anything from a piece of art. Even something as renowned as the Mona Lisa evokes nothing for me. The only classical piece of art that I know of the top of my head that makes me feel something is Edvard Munch’s “Anxiety”. Most of it seems drivel to me where well constructed AI art is better.
Most people respond to movies and songs etc.

If you specifically mean still images it’s worth remembering the context. A great deal of “art” in museums isn’t really aiming for emotional responses. Portraits are just selfie’s before camera phones etc. It’s degraded because the colors have changed over time as the paint degraded. At the extreme ancient sculptures weren’t just stone they got painted. Further even modern art was meant to be viewed in person, a life sized animal sculpture hits very different than that same art on a screen.

Anyway personally walking around museums I responded to quite a bit of the art excluding portraits etc.