I avoid all AI and will refuse to play ANY of these AI games because the more you interact, the more you feed the beast. AI is harvesting our faces, our data, our ideas, our irony-all of it, and we will soon as artists and as HUMANS be entirely dispensable, unless we resist this impulse to digitally clone ourselves and render ourselves superfluous. I am going to copypaste something that another artist/performer/fire dancer and choreographer (who is very much a pleasure junkie) wrote--an ultimatum to friends on Facebook who post AI art and engage in AI selfies, etc. This is by Chris Flambeaux, the guy who used to blow flame on the PBS commercial, among many other things...
"In one week, I'm going to unfollow anybody on FB that I am friends with that consistently posts A.I. art because we obviously have a dangerously different worldview. Also bc I dont feel safe being connected to them web-wise in case they facilitate the probably quite-innocent stealing of my artistic identity. I've already started unfriending and I'd advise those who feel strongly opposed to the A.I. surge to do the same.
There is a fundamental cleft between 'experiencing something' and 'connecting with something' going on in a moment in history w/ the dawn of A.I. I know that every new development has old naysayers stating that 'If God had wanted us to fly, he'd'a given us wings' etc. and it's true that we can't just be luddites alone! Also I concede that we already live - very well - with certain tech advances that were seen as inhuman! Yes. BUT the war going on now is between people experiencing something vs. being connected to it. Experiencing new-&-flashy lights or the ability to regurgitate a concept is...OK, I guess (tho have you noticed that it gets old in about 2 days?) & you have every right to marvel at it if you want. In my opinion, it turns humankind into a crowd of gawking apes, but even I love some of it. Wow! Flashy lights and holograms....wow. Whodathunkit!!" ....I guess.
But when you look at a Picasso, you see the real life (not digi-life) decisions to make new statements never before conceived, that only a visionary w a LOT of real world experience could ever make, and you see the moment they made them. History in the bend of one line. A change in human culture, finally expressed by a soul who had an opinion on it. Not a copy of an imprint. Not a 'hologram'. There is a great big difference between someone baring their soul or their understanding of the moment during a uniquely lived lifespan, and, let's say, the set of the Mandalorian. There's a LOT of art in both, and craft and the development of new tech (even painting styles are 'new tech') but no. It is simply not the same.
Now add to the mix the fact that these artists will never be credited and you are dealing with people's rights. Here's a 'right' which you yourself may lose if it goes any further - your identity. If A.I. can do this with the consent of the Vox Populii, then it can hijack the concept known as 'you' (name, face, smile, friends) and take your pictures, your jawline, your 'read I.D.scan' and replicate it as an A.I. entity, and it can do it legally if it is not your official info (like your SSi), circumnavigating the laws set up to protect you. Literally, 'you' could be stolen and there's not much you can do about it. Why would you be complacent about allowing that to happen? 'You-branded-genre', your life into a construct story, events artificially inserted and mixed with some celebrity you don't even like...etc etc. Why would u support putting that out there into the world? I hope it doesn't come to that, but nothing stands in it's way. Identity theft is illegal in all cases except this one. It's like in a totalitarian state. No one opposes it until it happens to them......
So no. As an artist, I do not agree with one's unique style becoming a commodity and sold or given freely to anyone who wants to claim it. I prefer to live life connected to it, not just wafting thru machine-made replications of it.
Favorite frame "...I felt bloated." Hmmm, yes, there is incredible progress with AI, tech, etc. But if we can have stimulating art in seconds, does it just become like so many other things that were once considered special, a delicacy, or a treat-that we now have so much accessibility that we gorge without savoring?
What about the process the artist goes through to create the art? Is it art without that?
I avoid all AI and will refuse to play ANY of these AI games because the more you interact, the more you feed the beast. AI is harvesting our faces, our data, our ideas, our irony-all of it, and we will soon as artists and as HUMANS be entirely dispensable, unless we resist this impulse to digitally clone ourselves and render ourselves superfluous. I am going to copypaste something that another artist/performer/fire dancer and choreographer (who is very much a pleasure junkie) wrote--an ultimatum to friends on Facebook who post AI art and engage in AI selfies, etc. This is by Chris Flambeaux, the guy who used to blow flame on the PBS commercial, among many other things...
"In one week, I'm going to unfollow anybody on FB that I am friends with that consistently posts A.I. art because we obviously have a dangerously different worldview. Also bc I dont feel safe being connected to them web-wise in case they facilitate the probably quite-innocent stealing of my artistic identity. I've already started unfriending and I'd advise those who feel strongly opposed to the A.I. surge to do the same.
There is a fundamental cleft between 'experiencing something' and 'connecting with something' going on in a moment in history w/ the dawn of A.I. I know that every new development has old naysayers stating that 'If God had wanted us to fly, he'd'a given us wings' etc. and it's true that we can't just be luddites alone! Also I concede that we already live - very well - with certain tech advances that were seen as inhuman! Yes. BUT the war going on now is between people experiencing something vs. being connected to it. Experiencing new-&-flashy lights or the ability to regurgitate a concept is...OK, I guess (tho have you noticed that it gets old in about 2 days?) & you have every right to marvel at it if you want. In my opinion, it turns humankind into a crowd of gawking apes, but even I love some of it. Wow! Flashy lights and holograms....wow. Whodathunkit!!" ....I guess.
But when you look at a Picasso, you see the real life (not digi-life) decisions to make new statements never before conceived, that only a visionary w a LOT of real world experience could ever make, and you see the moment they made them. History in the bend of one line. A change in human culture, finally expressed by a soul who had an opinion on it. Not a copy of an imprint. Not a 'hologram'. There is a great big difference between someone baring their soul or their understanding of the moment during a uniquely lived lifespan, and, let's say, the set of the Mandalorian. There's a LOT of art in both, and craft and the development of new tech (even painting styles are 'new tech') but no. It is simply not the same.
Now add to the mix the fact that these artists will never be credited and you are dealing with people's rights. Here's a 'right' which you yourself may lose if it goes any further - your identity. If A.I. can do this with the consent of the Vox Populii, then it can hijack the concept known as 'you' (name, face, smile, friends) and take your pictures, your jawline, your 'read I.D.scan' and replicate it as an A.I. entity, and it can do it legally if it is not your official info (like your SSi), circumnavigating the laws set up to protect you. Literally, 'you' could be stolen and there's not much you can do about it. Why would you be complacent about allowing that to happen? 'You-branded-genre', your life into a construct story, events artificially inserted and mixed with some celebrity you don't even like...etc etc. Why would u support putting that out there into the world? I hope it doesn't come to that, but nothing stands in it's way. Identity theft is illegal in all cases except this one. It's like in a totalitarian state. No one opposes it until it happens to them......
So no. As an artist, I do not agree with one's unique style becoming a commodity and sold or given freely to anyone who wants to claim it. I prefer to live life connected to it, not just wafting thru machine-made replications of it.
Favorite frame "...I felt bloated." Hmmm, yes, there is incredible progress with AI, tech, etc. But if we can have stimulating art in seconds, does it just become like so many other things that were once considered special, a delicacy, or a treat-that we now have so much accessibility that we gorge without savoring?
What about the process the artist goes through to create the art? Is it art without that?
Sue,
So glad you explored AI and wrote of your experience. As we move into quantum energies, this marvelous ensouled body
Need not be disregarded. I wonder how we will evolve experiencing both!