An excellent read related to themes I discussed in my newsletter today:
“But these noncommercial experiences—art and god and so forth—are perhaps the only private forms of resistance to corporate ideology that don’t capitulate or participate in the totalizing and banal language of neoliberalism; and it’s of existential importance to get the corporation out of your head.”
#AI #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #Art
https://open.substack.com/pub/patricknathan/p/resistance-isnt-futile
AI cannot make art, period. it makes dead images whose banality is often hidden behind garish colours and eye dazzling designs.
cartoons, satire, wallpaper patterns, perhaps. depends on the human doing the prompts.
but art, nope. i'm not surprised it's de rigeur in some circles because people don't buy art because they love it but as an investment. end of story 🤑🤑🤑 there's one born every minute. NFTs, yup, QED.
The problem is that shoddy journalism is giving techbro hucksters free rent to spew their hype. Here's the latest BS from Publisher's Weekly, literally allowing someone with a vested interest in "AI" futures to extol the utter enshittification (to quote Doctorow) of mainstream publishing.
(Pardon my French, too, but the blatant rush to be in on the ground floor of so-called "inevitable" industry changes is just so sleazy.)
is it crypto all over again? about as realistic. NFTS says it all imo. people are suckers for novelty.
@holon42
100% crypto and NFTs all over again. Each scam replacing the last, in one grand hustle to secure venture-capital while the hype is at its height, then cash out before the next crash.
Watch out for articles warning about the species-ending dangers of AI, too. They're also profit-driven, working to convince us of the utmost importance of paying attention to AI & investing in AI mitigation schemes.
(Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!)