I think Rousseau nails it in his A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences about how arts and sciences corrupts human freedom and thinking along with his moral superiority. Additionally, it is interesting how arts and sciences has now conflicted each other rather than the other way around.
Before I even read this, I want to say that human beings will always produce better written and visual and aural art because AI will never have a lives human experience to draw from. Now I’m off to read.
by saying “better” not only is one comparing themselves to a non-living system - one is also signing up for a big scam. The magic of technology! Also we can never challenge the relentless innovation of technology. That itself robs and destroys, all this “experience” and potential of human beings.
Artistic breakthrough matters even if it happens less and less. Without which we would have no special place for art and the relationship it creates between society and artists. But an ever increasing obsession with technology, procedures and methods, also cuts down or impairs potentiality, to think and act independently. Blocks out the irrational and rebellious instincts within us. The artist is “a transmitter of orders and a performer of calculations” (Jaques Ellul - Empire of Nonsense). Even as that sounds utterly hard-line, as opinion it does resonate when we observe the ‘producers of art’ engaged in various seemingly creative acts. An electronic music producer is most often “transmitting” her or his creativity into machines, real or virtual, via software which consequently performs the necessary “calculations” to generate the desired sound (and music). Or many times just mindless garbage. Ironic that they constantly remind us, that this stuff is ‘State Of The Art’ (SOTA).
I could not agree with a post more. Thank you for expressing this so beautifully!
A very pleasing article full of depth, I loved reading this, thank you!
An incredibly balanced, level-headed view of the matter. I so appreciate that this is in the world for people to read.
I think Rousseau nails it in his A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences about how arts and sciences corrupts human freedom and thinking along with his moral superiority. Additionally, it is interesting how arts and sciences has now conflicted each other rather than the other way around.
Before I even read this, I want to say that human beings will always produce better written and visual and aural art because AI will never have a lives human experience to draw from. Now I’m off to read.
by saying “better” not only is one comparing themselves to a non-living system - one is also signing up for a big scam. The magic of technology! Also we can never challenge the relentless innovation of technology. That itself robs and destroys, all this “experience” and potential of human beings.
*Lived human experience
Artistic breakthrough matters even if it happens less and less. Without which we would have no special place for art and the relationship it creates between society and artists. But an ever increasing obsession with technology, procedures and methods, also cuts down or impairs potentiality, to think and act independently. Blocks out the irrational and rebellious instincts within us. The artist is “a transmitter of orders and a performer of calculations” (Jaques Ellul - Empire of Nonsense). Even as that sounds utterly hard-line, as opinion it does resonate when we observe the ‘producers of art’ engaged in various seemingly creative acts. An electronic music producer is most often “transmitting” her or his creativity into machines, real or virtual, via software which consequently performs the necessary “calculations” to generate the desired sound (and music). Or many times just mindless garbage. Ironic that they constantly remind us, that this stuff is ‘State Of The Art’ (SOTA).
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