Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on copyrighted material without the original artists’ permission. And that’s without getting into AI’s negative drag on the environment.
I never said it was great.
And what art is new or exciting these days? Everything is derivative of everything else.
I take it you spend time going to galleries or the theatre? That you engage with art at the source…
Because if you said something as fucking stupid as “and what art is exciting these days” whilst only consuming media through a screen, that’d make you look and sound really daft.
I listen to music, read stories, watch movies, play games, etc. Art is so much more than galleries and theatres.
It’d be daft to assume that the only art that matters is the bougie shit. Luckily I’m not some pretentious fuck who thinks that and looks down on what the average person enjoys.
But hey go stare at some Jackson Polack scribbles and discern the deep meaning in a banana stuck to a wall or whatever passes for high brow these days.
I don’t look down on any of that art. I’ve read transformation novels written in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the most amazing original and articulate music. I’ve played games that have pushed storytelling and visceral experience.
I consider it art too. It’s the product of human endeavour, often driving to make something wonderful through effort and skill. It’s often an attempt with communicating at an audience.
To denounce it all as “derivative” misunderstands creativity.
That’s like saying that language is derivative because someone has already said all of the words… It’s not the words that matter but the context in which they are used. This is true of all art. The context of work provides the newness that stops it being derivative.
Sorry, I’ve got to ask though, can you give me an example of “bougie shit”?
