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Post #2069107

2025-06-26 09:23 UTC

This such a wonderful and insightful "scroll-article" about AI by Christoph Niemann. Take your time and experience the article. One profound insight among many: "Automating the creation of art is like automating life, so you can make it to the finish line faster." (Gift 🎁 link) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R08.MYpw.eD6wJ8bO7qGo&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Replies (9)

  • @ping13@swiss.social 2025-06-27 09:11

    Since a lot of people appreciated the link above: Earlier this week, I wrote a short article about creativity techniques and the role of AI: https://blog.heuel.org/2025/06/yes-yes-and/ Quote: "I firmly believe that a chatbot cannot smile at you, cannot match the creativity of a real person, and cannot share in the fun the way a human partner can." Having said this, I consciously use LLMs in various forms daily (as in "rubber duck debugging") and get value out of it.

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  • @ping13@swiss.social It's only preposterous...if you think consciousness function terminates when the meat bot terminates. This is like when missionaries told arctic first nations folk that hell was eternal heat 😁 Consensus reality ain't

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  • @EVDHmn@ecoevo.social 2025-06-26 15:58

    @ping13@swiss.social @paco@infosec.exchange lol… run to the finish line and die or enjoy the journey of life!

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  • @dgavin@mastodon.online 2025-06-26 22:00

    @ping13@swiss.social Very inspiring piece of artful storytelling. IMHO he is absolutely right that AI will not make traditional art and artists obsolete. Photography didn’t, even though quite the same arguments were made about it in the 19th century that we hear about AI art today. Then as today art didn’t die. It became more inspired and more interesting. Photography made impressionism, cubism and surrealism possible. AI will do the same to today’s art.

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  • @dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2025-06-27 06:41

    @ping13@swiss.social The author does not know, or skips, that you can, or ask somebody to, write a simple program that will do this without all the drawbacks of AI, and still retain creative control.

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  • @dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2025-06-27 06:54

    @ping13@swiss.social It is a great read, yet seems like in one moment the author was skipping one intent of AI. In one panel there is a brief mention of a discussion in art circles about removing artist from the art, but then the author diverges into more philosophy of art discussion of can AI make good art. The problem is that today's AI boosters and techbros want to eliminate human artists as a part of economic cost-savings or fascist anti-intelectual ideologies. It's not about art. It's about control.

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  • @r3to@mstdn.social 2025-06-27 07:09

    @ping13@swiss.social thank you!

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  • @urlyman@mastodon.social 2025-06-27 07:18

    @ping13@swiss.social Thanks for sharing. The bit about “intent” is key to the ambience we’re heading into. But the broader context will be AI’s own undoing. Sooner than later. And then we’ll be back to constraint as the wellspring of creativity https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114580061519994758

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  • @nichni@mastodonapp.uk 2025-06-29 21:21

    @ping13@swiss.social Reminds me of Micheal Ende's novel about Momo (and the Time Thrives.. Must look up the real title). A very popular book for children/YAs around 1980.

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