Activity – Ellie – The Giza Forum (Legacy)

Ellie posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago

Have you heard of A.I. art? Art generated by A.I. There is something deeply disturbing about these pictures. It has an energy that gives me the creeps.
And here I am together with a lot of other artists. Who have studied hard to learn how to draw and paint. Hours and hours of training and study of the Great Masters. And here is A.I. ignoring all that and just calculates art.
And this is probably just the beginning. I am not amused by this.
https://www.artaigallery.com/
- Billy Bob replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  You’re correct, creepy. No beauty to be found here. Wonder how the original is identified if a computer generates the piece?
  - Foglamp replied 5 years, 1 month ago
    They’ve already thought of that: “Non-Fungible Tokens” (NFT) have become all the rage. NFTs and AI “art” is each as soul-less as the other. Yes, very creepy.
- Joseph P. Farrell replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  What’s interesting to me is that most of this is not “modernism”, but a kind of “classicism” and “neo-classicism”, and I suspect that’s because it’s a campaign to get people to recognize “AI” art is just as good as a Rembrandt or a Velasquez or a Poussin or what have you. It isn’t… it is cold and sterile… a mere imitative formalism. This “AI art” didn’t come from a computer making its own brushes, mixing its own pigments, using impasto or gesso or any other technique. It looks and feels lifeless to me as well.
  - Foglamp replied 5 years, 1 month ago
    Call me a phillistine, but I can’t even bring myself to look at it, let alone try to appreciate it. It feels wrong, and subversive to the human spirit.
- Billy Bob replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  Soulless art for a soulless crowd.
- FiatLux replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  I find the whole idea of AI “art” profoundly disturbing too. It’s not art; it’s the simulacrum of art. It’s the perfect analogy to: the simulacrum of currency (digital money); the simulacrum of food (GMOs and fake meat); the simulacrum of a market (algorithmic stock trading); the simulacrum of human interaction (online meetings); the simulacrum of education (distance learning); and the simulacrum of human beings themselves (robots). And that list could go on. We’re fast approaching a bifurcation in human culture between those who want to live authentically human lives and those who are content living the simulacrum of a human life.
  - Billy Bob replied 5 years, 1 month ago
    The striving to “save”, while destroying the natural world to create an unnatural one is backasswords to say the least and the ultimate deception. One may need to create a simulacrum for space travel. We don’t need one here on the Earth; unless the template is us, than what?
- Robert Barricklow replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  If anything can be termed, the opposite of art; it is this evil. Yes, evil is the mirrored image of live/evil. It mimics life; but cannot ever be ligfe. It is virtual in every sense; nor of this world. Yet, through black magic it has found and alchemicalized a bridge to our world. That pretense is not in our timeline; but outside of the living spiritual line. A line where human artist draw conceptual bridges to bring the viewers consciousness toward a higher plain of awareness.
  The machine can’t even begin to dream of such artistic endeavors; it can only pretend.
  As Shakespeare said, “To be, or not to be”.
  In AI’s case, is not ever going “To Be”!