It’s really hard to engage in discussions with Americans when you reduce everything to 2 sides. Left = good and Right = bad is the insinuation generally. Like I get it but you’re aware that not only Americans use the internet? I hate finding a point interesting only to read “…the left/right”.
also makes the point that the appeal of AI art is in getting to think how "it's so over" for artists (who unfairly are allowed to be creative and must be humbled)
AI is an especially useful tool for reminding people that they aren't permitted to think and that their attempts to express themselves will either be drowned out with slop or met with automated reprisals
the consumer use cases advertised for AI tend to be ways to trick or humiliate other people, or threaten you with eventual humiliation if you don't submit to AI yourself. (you can't sell something that supposedly thinks for you as "empowering" in any other way)
generative tools are ideal for someone with nothing really to say but who wants to make sure audiences can't exercise any freedom of interpretation. To fill platforms with slop is to smother/atrophy the audience's ability to experience the world as having depth
inundating audiences with slop (of the AI variety or of the kitsch/propaganda variety) trains them to passively receive content as a kind of assault; it shuts down the inclination to read into things, to assign a range of intentions and ambiguities to communicative gestures
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I think there's more nuance to it. Maybe it's ultimately bad art but the practitioners are thoughtful about it.
https://aperture.org/magazines/aperture-no-257/
called new socialist
with a title that relates directly to fascism and the right
what were you expecting at all?