Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?

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https://lithub.com/against-generative-ai-is-art-the-last-refuge-of-our-humanity/

While it’s easy to fetishize the trope of the struggling artist, art results from failure overcome by determination.

The poem was the point, yes, but perhaps the struggle was also the point. When we create, we are deeply human. The emergence and evolution of generative AI is a threat to creativity. It is a threat to humanity.

Artistic ego is the best chance we have of battling against the rise of AI in creative spaces. When we write something and decide to share it with others, we are affirming the worth of our own words, which is an action of the ego. Although that art might be kenotic in nature, steeped in humility or in the passion to do good, we are also affirming that our voice is worth the time and attention of others.

Lots more.

My own two cents' worth.

This image was not produced with AI.
It's a merger of found material.



And there's a certain "truth" to the use of found material and the misalignment of the eyes; one that AI might "fix"

OTOH, there's a side of Trumpstein looking at you with his determination to commit any crime, however hideous, and get away with it, and another side, looking down while the other distracts, like matter and antimatter. When they meet (and they will meet in hell) E=mc². Epstein = mad Caligula in the second term.