Thoughts on AI, as a response to Naiomi.nature / Naiomi Huth's post on Instagram about so many people using AI to write everything for them. She talks abohr once she hears that same "voice", she loses interest. And, how she appreciates being able to use it as a tool or aide to support sometimes, but never wants to let it think *for* her.
Post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU-1Oe1Dwhu/?igsh=MWswcTEydWh4ZG5tZw==
Her page: https://www.instagram.com/naomi.huth?igsh=YzV3NG5hMjlyb3R2
Here here, for both AI writing and images. Arguments about what environmentally and socially conscious use could possibly look like aside, this is not to say AI can have no place in enhancing or aiding creative projects and processes.
To illustrate the principle, applying a preset filter to an image you actually took or made, or using a premade digital brush. But there is still a difference between a tool and a generator, a brush and a mind. And in my opinion a line exists between a piece of art by the mind of a person that AI was used to help in creating, versus a product of the by mind of AI where a human was at best its technician or at worst the machine that pushed the buttons.
One of these is necessitated by consciously lived experience, the other is not.
Hyper-realistic art of something that already exists still entirely requires that lived journey, and is most certainly art.
Single-line poetry requires influences and culmination after culmination of unique lived experiences that result in this thought being sparked and taking form.
But a generated product where every varied aspect comes from the equivalent of a line in a dictionary has no such journey. It can read but it witnesses nothing. It can talk but it has no breath. It can analyze but it cannot empathize. It can be polite but it cannot feel compassion. I can consume but it cannot ear.
It can generate but it cannot dream.
A blue butterfly already exists. A photo of a blue butterfly can be taken. A story about a blue butterfly may not.
To share a little more context of my thoughts here, I do not lose sight of bow I in my emotional, not terribly logical, human way, hold a type of affection for inanimate things that help me or remind me of things I like to do. I have a level of affection towards a brush that has served me well; a blanket that comforted me, a workbook that taught me; a notebook where I scribbled ideas.
Including AI, I appreciate tools and comforts that I benefit from. I feel gratitude towards people behind them. Please know I not mean to use any tone or innuendo that is disrespectful, and rather am trying to explain the type and scope of respect I do have.
But it is my opinion on art is that it's a lived, conscious journey that separates a created piece from being art, versus just a product.
AI compositions can be products that shadow art, but they are not art. They are indeed merely products.
And consciously or not the more we are exposed to robot voices, likely the more we will feel the difference between being presented with flat products, versus results of lived journeys. And ones that influence the piece independently, as well as push the real evolution, and continue to develop our collective journey of art throughout the ages that is human and ours.
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