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A Christian breakdown about art, creating, and AI. I am not religious and have little knowledge of Christianity but I found the perspective and comparisons fascinating.
Jun 30, 2025
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a thoughtful and nuanced take. maybe we were all making derivative, practically machine-dictated slop all along? maybe there’s value in engaging with this new technological and creative landscape?
Apr 4, 2025
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Ok so forget about the environmental issues (if you say other art forms do damage as well?), forget about the stealing from other artists (it’s true a lot of great art involves theft), forget about it being impersonal (a lot of good art is), forget about what is and isn’t art— here’s why I think maybe you shouldn’t bother with ai image generation:
You’re unlikely to learn or create anything new, you’re just rearranging the internet’s entrails. Making more chaff that’s dead on arrival and fed back into the AI meat grinder, to be torn apart and reassembled by someone else.
Nick Cave has a quote about art being great because we create it by pushing against our limitations, failing in ways and overcoming in others. AI is theoretically limitless, and so there is nothing to push against or transcend.
Conceiving of some combination of images and making it happen is not a very interesting way of making art to begin with (whether you use AI or do it manually). You won’t discover anything in this creation, it’s just pure execution. Art is informed by its process, the creation of it is intrinsic to the thing itself. You have no medium, no physical or conceptual substance to push against— just someone else’s algorithm. At best you are a curator of images, or an illustrator whose products have little utility. Really just a cog in someone else’s increasingly run-of-the-mill machine, making content indistinguishable from the next guy and training an algorithm to make the world a worse place. Can you use AI as an ingredient in a more complex project? Maybe. But you’ll make better, more interesting art without it. Just because something feels inevitable doesn’t mean it’s not a choice
Apr 16, 2025
Thinking about the readymades today after listening to the Lonely Palette podcast (liked) and how one of it's interpretations is art without an artist, and I wonder if it's prophetic in the sense that AI art could be described as such.
The obvious question of the computer being the artist isn't quite the same because the computer does not possess the skill to create art -- paint, sketch etc. but can quite literally conjure images that have verisimilitude to the original. Moreover, in the anthropocentric context, AI art is pretty much a 'readymade' in a sense, though we do have to feed the generative model certain data for it to work on. And yet, it cannot be called the skill of making the image.
Just a thought. It's certainly not perfect or academically sound, really.
Dec 15, 2024
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