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David Dyte's avatar

I'm so enjoying this cultural future that does nothing but churn out an increasingly garbled pastiche of human creativity, year dot to 2020. As dead as that seems now, imagine 50 years of the same.

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Hollywood Greg's avatar

If you are a true artist AI can be used as a great jumping off point. Now if you are a true fraud and release what the AI hath created as thine OWN. Then you are should catch shit.

But, if you are able to use AI as just an idea or schematic generator and then branch off into your own thang that you augment into your own hybrid- much like Andy Warhol and Pop Art or the Found Art movement- I think AI is harmless. There hasn’t been anything really PURELY ORIGINAL in at least a decade or so.

This article though was very good food for thought- and I dug The Menu. It had more of a heart to it than people gave it credit for having.

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Eden's avatar

I thought I got The Menu, but now I think I fully *get* it. This was great.

Also the Rembrandt title and the whole idea of copying/iterating on previously existing work reminds me of the film Tim's Vermeer about a guy who figured out a way to perfectly copy Vermeer paintings. It is so good.

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Succinct Susannah's avatar

Damn this hits hard.

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