Post ASweTCcuicPVcPESnI by kat@weatherishappening.network
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 (DIR) Post #ASweTALpBBYIYpDmsa by kat@weatherishappening.network
       2023-02-21T22:43:30Z
       
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       #ChatGPT and its ilk are effectively a large-scale DDoS attack on not only specific tasks (such as teaching, software maintenance and fiction editing) but on human creative inspiration, sense of self and ability to make meaning of the universe.notice how they are- creating work for us rather than saving us work- automating inherently energizing and rewarding tasks such as making art rather than tiring and tedious tasks such as filing taxes- flooding social networks with generated content that makes it harder to connect with real humans and build community- distracting us with questions like “what if this machine is sentient?” which keep us from noticing and acting to prevent the suffering of actual humansthat thing where all search engines have become basically unusable because they’re stuffed full of AI garbage? i fear that’s about to happen to everything.i don’t believe this is necessarily intentional, but no machine that learns under capitalism can imagine another world.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASweTBV4uGY47oYgwS by kat@weatherishappening.network
       2023-02-21T22:58:13Z
       
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       i hope, though, that this exponential flood of inhuman content will finally make it impossible not to see that we all have inherent value regardless of what we produce or consume.care about the world because caring matters. make art because it matters. *you* matter. each of us contains infinities the machines will never understand. don’t let them try to tell you that you can be replaced; you can’t. none of us can.always ask yourself who benefits from your apathy, your overwhelm, your exhaustion, your loneliness.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASweTCcuicPVcPESnI by kat@weatherishappening.network
       2023-02-22T01:32:58Z
       
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       still trying to figure out the right way to say this. in recent decades it has become easier and easier to fall into the trap of "i don't need to make this particular art, someone else has made it better than me". to get demoralized by comparing to the work of others.art-making AIs extrapolate that feeling to encompass the entire universe of potential art, so you can no longer avoid facing down and overcoming that fear. it's the Library of Babel, no longer the suspicion but the certainty that anything you could say has been said before.of course it's always been a lie; you have to make the thing anyway. the thing is particular to you. the thing is *specific*, as each of us is specific.we're all Pierre Menard, rewriting Don Quixote. which was Borges' point even then.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASySr2H23HJRKFW09Y by kat@weatherishappening.network
       2023-02-23T00:00:41Z
       
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       in a moment of lovely synchronicity i rediscovered this David Byrne quote today."It can often seem that those in power don’t want us to enjoy making things for ourselves—they’d prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation."
       
 (DIR) Post #AT11E26ad6C6DmgjRo by artcollisions@vis.social
       2023-02-23T15:56:41Z
       
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       @kat @clive God he is brilliant.
       
 (DIR) Post #AT11E2cUiTiNojcDB2 by clive@saturation.social
       2023-02-24T20:21:09Z
       
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       @artcollisions @kat Yes!