DanielDec 29, 2022

Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.

Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing

I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.

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@dznz I've become somewhat elitist in my old age and have been known to say the same thing about some "art" I've seen.
Dec 29, 2022 at 9:26pmWeb
Show threadDanielDec 29, 2022
@735 yeah! Why don’t the rich launder their wealth the old fashioned way - through a net café - rather than buying up Warhols? 😂
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@735 @dznz

I keep wondering if I'm cheating by grumbling about AI Art when I'm a maker of computer collage myself. Is it inherently more wholesome to be a human brain choosing what element goes where, instead of letting a machine do it for you? 🤔

Show threadDanielDec 30, 2022
@xenophora @735 id say not at all. Generative and procedural and computer-assisted art has a long and mostly wholesome history, it’s not that the computer was involved but that massive amounts of human work was hoovered and laundered for the purpose of devaluing the creators. Or that’s my 2c
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@dznz @735

True enough. It's taken me at least a couple of decades to amass and organize the kinds materials I like to use. Probably I wouldn't get around to using even half of them, even if I could live to100 and spend all day every day making stuff.

Show thread735 🎸Dec 30, 2022
@xenophora @dznz Good question. I have some ideas on this as an artist who's been using AIart as a way to get ideas and whatnot, but there's not enough room to rattle on about it in here. Basically, it's like any tool and can be misused, and will be, unfortunately. It can also be a very powerful tool if in the right hands. Artists have been cheating for as long as there has been art!