Listen "Resist Programming: why ai art is deeply offensive"
Episode Synopsis
The world is a better place when people engage in creating things to express themselves. The act of practicing for years to become skilled at something is a meaningful and worthwhile use of time. In fact, the work writers, artists, filmmakers and other creatives produce changes the world for the better. Dictators and injustices are exposed and toppled all while we become familiar with those with different experiences to ourselves and learn to empathize with each other. Art is more than a product, a piece of content, entertainment, or something to do to pass the time, art is literally part of the essential nature of humanity.I find the automation of art to be offensive in the same way I’d be offended if some huckster was selling knock-off merch next to the casket at a loved one’s funeral. There is something deeply disturbing about the cold calculated nature of automating truly human things. We have become accustomed to horrifying realities and terrible atrocities because their are a few personal benefits wrapped up in the programming.This piece is about questioning your assumptions, especially if those assumptions are based on things said by those who would do you harm. If someone spends a lot of time trying to convince you that you’re powerless to stop them, that you can’t change anything, or that you should just accept their views… they are coming you. If you believe them, it becomes self-fulling prophesy.
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