Content
@
https://warpcast.com/~/channel/the-library
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
Aside from a very few (mostly conceptual works of art) I am unapologetically pessimistic about the role of AI in art and in society in general. There I said it. I will not bore you with my list of negatives right here but at the very least consumer level AI *is* just the entertainment division of the military industrial complex (to paraphrase F. Zappa) Critical tracts dissecting intelligent artificiality and the 'tech arms race ' excite me and this one by Karen Hao looks promising. Arriving in May 'I argue that the only way to fully understand the far-reaching implications of the AI race is to recognize companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire. Empires of old seized & extracted resources, and exploited the labor of the places they conquered to drive their own expansion & advancement. All the while, they justified their conquest by calling it a civilizing mission and promising to bring the world boundless progress... (continued below)
9 replies
5 recasts
28 reactions
tim/vortac
@vortac
This is well put what I’m very concerned about and the Ghibli excess is a good example https://warpcast.com/antimeme/0x1b44d85e
1 reply
1 recast
4 reactions
Paul Prudence
@paul-prudence
a fossil record of the last breath of culture indeed! Artists say don't copy our work, AI (as ever protected by the Capital) says: 'I don't care'.
0 reply
0 recast
2 reactions
