William I think I agree with you! I hadn't thought about the distinction between art and content in the context of AI before and I find it illuminating. I have also been curious to find that I find early AI works to feel more like art than the near perfect things that can now be created, I'm curious about that, they were generally more abstracted, is abstraction something I intuit as a human trait while perfection is not? Lovely food for thought - thanks!
I think there's something to that, about perfection not being human. Shoji Morimoto, author of "Rental Person Who Does Nothing", comments on this in his book, saying that he's not worried about AI because people actually prefer the imperfect. And on a related theme, the Lo-Fi aesthetic in, for example, lo-fi hip-hop, is about slightly randomizing the timing of the beats and melodies so that they aren't metronomically timed and feel more humanly performed.
William I think I agree with you! I hadn't thought about the distinction between art and content in the context of AI before and I find it illuminating. I have also been curious to find that I find early AI works to feel more like art than the near perfect things that can now be created, I'm curious about that, they were generally more abstracted, is abstraction something I intuit as a human trait while perfection is not? Lovely food for thought - thanks!
I think there's something to that, about perfection not being human. Shoji Morimoto, author of "Rental Person Who Does Nothing", comments on this in his book, saying that he's not worried about AI because people actually prefer the imperfect. And on a related theme, the Lo-Fi aesthetic in, for example, lo-fi hip-hop, is about slightly randomizing the timing of the beats and melodies so that they aren't metronomically timed and feel more humanly performed.