As a connoisseur, maybe you can explain why the oversized glass is talking about itself to me.
Because the artist – the human, not the AI, that is – decided that it should. Maybe just with a chuckle, no deeper meaning, wouldn’t be the first time that happens (much to the chagrin of the academic art world).
Were they chuckling because the talking glass confuses and upsets the rule-of-three comedy technique being used?
I guess I’m talking to the crowd here because this is important: The reason this is notable evidence of AI and not human choice is because it is incoherent.
People know what a knock-knock joke is, and it wouldn’t work so well to say “knock-crack” for a chuckle but still expect me to ask “who’s there?” after. In comedy, and in visual art, the talking glass is an example of poor grammar.
A person, a human artist, could say knock-crack to me. Maybe they just have poor grammar generally. Maybe they did intentionally choose or ask for a giant talking cup for no reason, even though it harms the other joke they’re obviously interested in telling. But I flatly don’t believe this. It is far easier to believe this is random noise from the machine we already know generates random noise.
barsoap is reaching for the stars here to justify something they know is bullshit.
With some time passed, I actually have the high-brow answer you so desire:
The talking glass, which might only be spotted on a second take as the human mind first glances over the inconsistency, focussed on reading the text, challenges us to emphasise with Excel’s own problems deriving meaning from the input it’s given. Just as we mislooked, assumed context, so does Excel assume context, and January 17th.
barsoap is reaching for the stars here to justify something they know is bullshit.
That’s where flowers grow that’s why it’s beautiful. You may dismiss it, others might quote Bob Ross and call it a happy accident, yet others might jerk off to it, talking about Jung, how the human behind the generation, in their chuckle, might not have been aware of the context of what they were producing, but channelled the collective unconsciousness’ understanding of it and then wax on about the chuckle as the self-portrait, archetype, of hunches.
If you think that’s BS then you should read some of the explanations that come with modern academic works of art. As in the stuff you’re producing when you study art. I’m fucking holding back here, they seem to be grading by unintelligibility and length of the justification.
Is that BS? I am quite sympathetic to that notion. But that doesn’t challenge its status as art.
I don’t, other than it seems to be something you’ve written specifically to tick the boxes you think I’m looking for.
Would it baffle you to know I might consider this “critique” to be art where the image itself is not? I leave that as an exercise to the reader.
But anyway. Yet again, your contempt for the modern art world really betrays your jealousy of it. Do I just take your word for it that these critics have nothing to say?
If you think that the writings of these critics are smug, self-important hogwash, then why are you using their tools, the tools of the enemy, to justify to me why I should care about this talking cup?
Again, to the crowd: this is why what barsoap is saying is bullshit. It’s just a chess move to them. They don’t actually believe any of this. Their sole motivation is salvaging gen AI’s reputation.
Would it baffle you to know I might consider this “critique” to be art where the image itself is not? I leave that as an exercise to the reader.
Not in the slightest. Also, how kind of you.
Do I just take your word for it that these critics have nothing to say?
Nah I’m just not into the high-falutin’ stuff myself. At least not in the “write an essay to accompany the work” way. Part of the craft of art, for me, is to actually express stuff in the artwork, and not as a combination of artwork+essay. I very much rather leave the thing open to interpretation, see what happens. That’s entering a dialogue with whoever the audience may be instead of preaching from the pulpit, it’s horizontal, not hierarchical, it does not privilege the perception of the author over that of the audience.
Their sole motivation is salvaging gen AI’s reputation.
Yes and no? My actual stance on gen AI is simple: It’s pretty much like photography. Tons of slop photographs and AI gens exist because it’s so accessible, doesn’t mean you cannot create art using it. Like with photography, using gen AI you have to deal with its limitations: You can’t control the weather, you can’t control how the AI will interpret certain things. It’s limitations you have to work within, work around, with photography more physical, with AI you’re putting your lens into a very weird conceptual kind of space. In either case, as an artist, you’re making lots of choices, turn lots of knobs, to increase your odds but ultimately still rely on chance and throw away tons of shots which aren’t quite right. It’s quite a different process than drawing which is why I think so much of the critique comes from… painters. That was the case back in the days when photography was new, and it’s the same now, modulo people now using graphics tablets of which I have one connected to my PC mind you just make this clear even if I can’t draw for shit I’m not half-bad at sculpting. I wouldn’t really dream of doing something serious with gen AI that doesn’t have at least a depth map as input, there’s just not enough control without that kind of thing.
Because the artist – the human, not the AI, that is – decided that it should. Maybe just with a chuckle, no deeper meaning, wouldn’t be the first time that happens (much to the chagrin of the academic art world).
Were they chuckling because the talking glass confuses and upsets the rule-of-three comedy technique being used?
I guess I’m talking to the crowd here because this is important: The reason this is notable evidence of AI and not human choice is because it is incoherent.
People know what a knock-knock joke is, and it wouldn’t work so well to say “knock-crack” for a chuckle but still expect me to ask “who’s there?” after. In comedy, and in visual art, the talking glass is an example of poor grammar.
A person, a human artist, could say knock-crack to me. Maybe they just have poor grammar generally. Maybe they did intentionally choose or ask for a giant talking cup for no reason, even though it harms the other joke they’re obviously interested in telling. But I flatly don’t believe this. It is far easier to believe this is random noise from the machine we already know generates random noise.
barsoap is reaching for the stars here to justify something they know is bullshit.
With some time passed, I actually have the high-brow answer you so desire:
The talking glass, which might only be spotted on a second take as the human mind first glances over the inconsistency, focussed on reading the text, challenges us to emphasise with Excel’s own problems deriving meaning from the input it’s given. Just as we mislooked, assumed context, so does Excel assume context, and January 17th.
That’s where flowers grow that’s why it’s beautiful. You may dismiss it, others might quote Bob Ross and call it a happy accident, yet others might jerk off to it, talking about Jung, how the human behind the generation, in their chuckle, might not have been aware of the context of what they were producing, but channelled the collective unconsciousness’ understanding of it and then wax on about the chuckle as the self-portrait, archetype, of hunches.
If you think that’s BS then you should read some of the explanations that come with modern academic works of art. As in the stuff you’re producing when you study art. I’m fucking holding back here, they seem to be grading by unintelligibility and length of the justification.
Is that BS? I am quite sympathetic to that notion. But that doesn’t challenge its status as art.
I don’t, other than it seems to be something you’ve written specifically to tick the boxes you think I’m looking for.
Would it baffle you to know I might consider this “critique” to be art where the image itself is not? I leave that as an exercise to the reader.
But anyway. Yet again, your contempt for the modern art world really betrays your jealousy of it. Do I just take your word for it that these critics have nothing to say?
If you think that the writings of these critics are smug, self-important hogwash, then why are you using their tools, the tools of the enemy, to justify to me why I should care about this talking cup?
Again, to the crowd: this is why what barsoap is saying is bullshit. It’s just a chess move to them. They don’t actually believe any of this. Their sole motivation is salvaging gen AI’s reputation.
Not in the slightest. Also, how kind of you.
Nah I’m just not into the high-falutin’ stuff myself. At least not in the “write an essay to accompany the work” way. Part of the craft of art, for me, is to actually express stuff in the artwork, and not as a combination of artwork+essay. I very much rather leave the thing open to interpretation, see what happens. That’s entering a dialogue with whoever the audience may be instead of preaching from the pulpit, it’s horizontal, not hierarchical, it does not privilege the perception of the author over that of the audience.
Yes and no? My actual stance on gen AI is simple: It’s pretty much like photography. Tons of slop photographs and AI gens exist because it’s so accessible, doesn’t mean you cannot create art using it. Like with photography, using gen AI you have to deal with its limitations: You can’t control the weather, you can’t control how the AI will interpret certain things. It’s limitations you have to work within, work around, with photography more physical, with AI you’re putting your lens into a very weird conceptual kind of space. In either case, as an artist, you’re making lots of choices, turn lots of knobs, to increase your odds but ultimately still rely on chance and throw away tons of shots which aren’t quite right. It’s quite a different process than drawing which is why I think so much of the critique comes from… painters. That was the case back in the days when photography was new, and it’s the same now, modulo people now using graphics tablets of which I have one connected to my PC mind you just make this clear even if I can’t draw for shit I’m not half-bad at sculpting. I wouldn’t really dream of doing something serious with gen AI that doesn’t have at least a depth map as input, there’s just not enough control without that kind of thing.