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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
a little girl walks up to you holding a flower wreath. she says "i made this for you!" and gestures for you to bend down so she can put it on your head. in that moment, do you care about the fact that millions of other people could have made a flower wreath as good or better?
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sílvia
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something something art made by humans has a Soul
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
when another person makes art and shows it to you they are establishing a line of communication between their soul and yours. that's what art is for. AI-generated art is confusing because we don't have a felt understanding of the soul of its creator
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
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this is DALL-E 2 generating "A bowl of soup that is a portal to another dimension as digital art." if i was told a person made this i might wonder what it means to them. what is the significance of soup as a symbol for them? does the portal take you home or on an adventure?
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
but a person didn't make this. so what does it mean? it's a dream without a dreamer. presumably DALL-E 2 came to understand the meaning of "digital art" from its training data, so there are bits and pieces of the souls of human digital artists in there and then... what?
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Robbie
@PocketLark
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*fart noise* you: meaning is meaningful and I am interested in People now and there is no People here idk man, this art *is* a reflection of all people and ideas and how ideas work and how concepts work there's plenty to be curious about; try again?