Post #2357568
2026-04-24 11:58 UTC
>'But it still looks beautiful!'
Sometimes! I'm not someone who is going to deny there's any aesthetic appeal to 'AI art'. But there's very little artifice.
I was initially intrigued - honestly, as a cognitive scientist I have been excitedly following this technology for years to see where it leads as it *does* mimic some aspects of how we believe thoughts and imagery are formed in the brain. That's really cool! It also hasn't changed much in 20 years.
What changed was wholesale theft.>
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@rubyjones@wandering.shop 2026-04-24 12:01
>And it's not remotely the same kind of 'learning' I get by viewing lots of art. To be frank: the human brain is massively more efficient. Just STAGGERINGLY more efficient than any LLM. Just think of the energy consumption alone! And that's part of why it's so effective. Using and reusing neural pathways, exploiting feedback loops, constantly adapting - this is part of how we're able to make much more sophisticated connections, and ultimately the self-reflection that marks self-consciousness>