it even playered a bit of a dong

This was the best part about it.

What’s the excuse of the banana guy for making a shitty piece with no effort?

You’re talking like there’s some rule about the effort required in order for something to qualify as “art,” as if the time-saving aspect of AI-generation is what disqualifies its images. That’s not how art works, and that’s not the issue with AI.

For a lot of people, art is about expressing themselves. If you have an absurd idea to troll art by doing something inane like taping a banana to a wall, that is still expressing one’s self even if it seems low-effort. You don’t have to like it or agree with it, just as you don’t have to like or agree with what another person says.

The AI art doesn’t appear out of nothing. Someone sets the actual content of the art in motion

And unless the human takes great control in the generation of that image, other humans may feel something lacking in the result. At best, AI art resembles something made by someone who has the hand-eye coordination and technical skill required to make visual art, but who lacks the passion and training that allows them to connect emotionally with an audience.

You really don’t see the nuance to that? A human uses art to satirize the way other humans use art. A message is being conveyed. The message might be, “Fuck your idea of art,” but that’s still a message being sent from one human to other humans, through the medium of art.

An AI can’t do that. An AI can’t understand the emotions underlying the concept of protest art. You can ask it to make up some absurd idea, or even to generate a realistic image of it, but it’s not likely to resonate with humans as well as human-made art does.

It’s okay if this all sounds like gobbledygook - not everyone connects to art in the same way. But those that get it know exactly what I’m talking about.

The thing people seem to forget in this argument is that art is more than making pretty pictures. Art is used to convey emotional messages -it’s a unique act of human expression.

To create art (whether it be through image, writing, or something else) brings a cathartic sense to the artist, and if done well, it can communicate intended emotions to a viewer. Are there people carefully programming modern AI to make art that fits that concept? Maybe - I have heard people talk about that scenario, but I haven’t seen any such art yet. Rather, the vast majority of modern AI images lack the nuance and emotional impact that real art carries. It’s hollow, uncoordinated, and lacks the “soul” people connect to in human-made art.

To be fair, I’m way too big to fit into those drivers’ seats. To get a true sense of the handling, we’d need to recruit some toddlers to test drive. I get the feeling they’d agree with you.

Or attach a leash. Just be sure to remind your cart that it’s a good boy/girl, clean up any messes it makes, and keep it away from the chocolate in the checkout line.

I can’t imagine the handling is truly that high, but I do agree that you found the superior cart.

!Lemmysilver

As someone who doesn’t use mainstream social media, I appreciate the clarification. Sometimes comments in a post are read in different orders. It’s especially confusing here because the middle is an embedded image, and sometimes with posts like this you’re supposed to read the embedded thing first.

Anyway, thank you!

For those that don’t recognize the reference, there’s a book by Oliver Sacks entitled The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

It’s a fantastic book and highly recommended if you’re interested in neurology and the effects of brain injuries (especially of the right hemisphere.)

By contrast, I’m a little pissed that it took this long for my little sister to become my little sister - we used to beg our parents to let us share a bedroom! But she was made to share a room with our two older brothers instead.

In a way, we always knew.

Because they think poors will use cash money on drugs and booze.

No, seriously. That’s the reasoning of those that limit aid. They think anyone in poverty is there because of drug addiction.

Coincidentally, they also believe that drug addicts don’t deserve help. It’s all awfully convenient (for those who don’t want to help others.)

This, but applied to all ads.

that looks like gummy candy

I just realized Lemmy doesn’t yet have a “Forbidden Snacks” community.

Not really. But after the election, I posted an impassioned rant on a queer social app. As a result, a woman I had been casually messaging on it asked me out. We are a resistance team now (and official girlfriends.)

I guess this was one of those “be yourself” moments that paid off. I hadn’t meant to flirt, but apparently if you declare that you aren’t scared because you’ve always been targeted, and that you refuse to stand down to fascists at any cost, that’s really hot.

It turns out that fighting fascists is the key to a woman’s heart.