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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 9601815" data-attributes="member: 467">I have not scrolled through this thread in a while and here is my current take (which some of you may notice has evolved over time):AI generated art (including writing and music as well as visual art) "works" insofar as most people do not examine art deeply. They glance, maybe even occasionally linger, but rarely examine (or read deeply, or listen fully). There are lots of pieces that are great at a glance in this thread, but none that stand up to scrutiny. The reason for that is that generative AI algorithms are not thinking things. They aren't making decisions. And they certainly aren't, in and of themselves, creating art. They are generating pixels (or words or beats) within a probably expected set of parameters.This is a good metaphor for art and culture in the modern age, i think. AI art will take people's jobs not because some people want to use AI to generate art -- I think the promise of AI art actually makes art inclusive in its own way -- but because as a culture our consumption of art is so shallow and so untrained in eye, ear and mind that the "slop" looks like art at first glance and very few of us care to examine it further.</blockquote>