Post #2605980

2022-12-12 23:38 UTC

@mattblaze@federate.social @Manigarm@mastodon.social I'm only mostly comfortable saying that someone who writes his name on a urinal is not thereby making art. I'm ENTIRELY comfortable saying that someone who commissions an artist to make a bunch of pictures is not the one making art, and that this doesn't change if you replace the (actual) artist with a machine. @byterhymer@mastodon.social Didn't the Steve Jobs version of that aphorism famously end, at least by implication, with "but not from me"?

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@linebyline@bytetower.social 2022-12-12 23:43

I also think the comparison to training an AI and human learning, while somewhat clever, ultimately misses the mark. A human studying the old masters (or any other source of inspiration) is making conscious decisions about what to emulate. They're not making a spreadsheet of every element of every artwork they've ever seen and picking out the elements with the strongest statistical correlation with keywords they were given.

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@mattblaze@federate.social 2022-12-12 23:45

@linebyline@bytetower.social @Manigarm@mastodon.social @byterhymer@mastodon.social A film director doesn't generally directly do any of the things involved in making a movie. They just tell others what to do. Yet we generally consider the director to be the principal artist of a film.

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