Freya Holmérmy new video is out!
this one is a lot more personal than my usual stuff, but I've felt a need to express this for a long time
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY
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Aras Pranckevičius@acegikmo great video, thanks ❤️ This answer to "do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song?" question by Nick Cave -- way back from 2019! -- I often think about. https://www.theredhandfiles.com/considering-human-imagination-the-last-piece-of-wilderness-do-you-think-ai-will-ever-be-able-to-write-a-good-song/
There's also his later (2023) answer about ChatGPT writing lyrics: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/
Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song? - The Red Hand Files
Dear Peter, In Yuval Noah Harari’s brilliant new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, he writes that Artificial Intelligence, with its limitless potential and connectedness, will ultimately render many humans redundant in the work place. This sounds entirely feasible. However, he goes on to say that AI will be able to write better songs […]
Michael Vance@aras @acegikmo I'm sympathetic to Cave's position that without "pneuma" you are missing a specific piece of what makes the creative effort "awe inspiring”. For instance I saw this piece in person the other day and while it is visually arresting the depth of my appreciation for it changed significantly when I saw its mechanism of production, small glazed tiles of ceramic artfully arranged. https://whitney.org/collection/works/63687
@aras @acegikmo I think this viewpoint is susceptible to attack though, as it invites "gatekeeping" on who gets to be an artist. I feel like any essay around AI must grapple with simple analogies such as the introduction of photography and response from painting. Art and our dialog around it are not static, our expectations shift dynamically as tools and process and thinking expand, and we have to consider changes to our landscape as part of that.
@aras @acegikmo I say this as someone deeply skeptical of AI/ML techniques, but I also feel that part of my skepticism is an artifact of "taste", of a curiosity about how things work, and specifically things that I myself grew up with, specific objects and technology and technical approaches. I don't think we can be "wholly new" in our perspectives as we age, and this is simply a fact of the human experience and the arc of our lives, and this makes us suspicious and skeptical.