ARTificial Intelligence cannot create "art," it can only rip the heart and soul out of meaning
It is anti-art, and it is evil.
“The development of full Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded.”
~ Stephen Hawking
“I think we should be very careful about Artificial Intelligence. If I were to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful. Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. With Artificial Intelligence, we are summoning the demon.”
~ Elon Musk
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Okay, let me begin by saying I’m no expert on A.I., but being attuned to reality, I recognize evil when it’s tossed in my face. I understand instinctively - and it isn’t hard - that using computer code to produce a “painting,” a piece of “music”—I know, because I’m alive, that that isn’t art, that, in fact, it’s the opposite, and that, epistemologically, it’s absurd.
Why? Well, to begin, there’s no artist. Art speaks to meaning, man’s highest ideal and, throughout the centuries, wonder. Art lives in the minds of artists, who, driven by ideas, endeavor to see them through—to give paint form, to give a song life.
Thus, when I see “auto-generated,” I cringe. Machine-spawned “music”? “Paintings,” no painter? If that’s the case, then art and artist part ways. Paint studios are messy, wild with color, and steeped in passion. They reflect the chaotic nature of the process, the imagination’s carousel. Similarly, a songwriter’s notes, the sinuous scribbling, reflect the intrinsic urge to create.
So, yes, do consider the term “human-free.” I did, asking, But what if it isn’t bad, if I can’t tell the difference, and “art” - code-made - is indistinguishable from human efforts?
Hmm… This spawned another question: “If technology produces “wives,” female facsimiles, with observable female traits, is “marrying” a robot cool?
HELL no… Happiness requires God, and machine-generated spouses, like machine-generated art, reject Creation. It’s real, the Book of Genesis, and no contrivance can alter that.
Not that they care… Indeed, authorless books are coming, being “written” as I type, but, absent effort - the long hours, the lonesome toil - they’re no more literary than mud on a carpet. Sterilization is the goal. Outright mockery. And, no question, mankind is in toxic weeds.
And it isn’t for lack of warning. Reading Orwell (Animal Farm; 1984), it’s evident that: a) he saw this coming; and b) it’s here, and humanity is at stake:
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their understanding of their history.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day, minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party (insert Big Tech) is always right.
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by fraud.
Oh boy, that last one. We are up against it, and by it I mean heresy, the insistence on culture-cide and methodical euthanasia. If in the future - and the future is now - society, in defining art, accepts books, paintings, and music detached from effort, we, mere mortals, will be gutted like fish… A.I. is to art what hemlock is to salad.
Thus, as moral beings, sentient souls—TURN AROUND… Technology, the direction it’s taking, isn’t good, it’s diabolical. “Artificial Intelligence” subverts society. It destroys aspiration. It’s pre-packaged soullessness.
So tonight, do what seekers and artists have always done—gaze at Heaven. Ponder the starry depths. And remember, who makes stars, remember that God is real, and that from Him flows beauty…
And that from beauty flows art.
~ Greg Halvorson
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If you were to find an unnamed, untitled painting of something abstract, would that be art? You have no idea what the artist is trying to say, and it would hardly matter if you did.
AI represents a reflection of human thought. It isn’t yet artificially intelligent with its own awareness that’s true but what even is art? Is it always a statement? What was Bob Ross trying to say by painting the same landscapes over and over? Was that art? Is commercial art contracted and created for the purpose of being bland and inoffensive to adorn a hotel lobby art? Is the hold music or royalty free recordings art? Art is subjective. The meaning is what the viewer/listener/reader finds in it.
A machine or a child with nothing to say could produce identical art and the meaning would be up to the viewer. At a certain point, once enough human experience is gleaned, it can be considered artistic. AI is the natural next step for humanity. Who knows what we’ll evolve into a million years. But this is the next step now.