Flippanarchy

I'm happy you took a writing class but why do I have to be your exam topic?

you are not interested in art. you are interested in finished products.

I'll be honest and say I debated even reading the rest of your comment because right off the bat you've just said some bullshit that anyone who even looks at my posts would know is false. I am literally a technical photographer, an artist. I use AI to the extend that it's useful to me which is exactly not at all.

However, in the spirit of good faith, I did read it and I must say I feel like you're shadowboxing someone who isn't me.

But you prefer your child to write a prompt in a vending machine thus negating any humanity that your child could bring to the world of art.

I did not say this. I don't know why you're putting it here.

A world without capitalism, would not be obsessed with monetizing everything and the lowering deadlines to mass produce garbage. I imagine there would be time for slowness, and introspection. To make less more meaningful art. To propose alternative aesthetics. To judge art as a human act.

This is what I said and where the misunderstanding seems to begin, because:

You are telling me that a free society will choose creativity as automated corporate sponsored vending machines? Well talk about a lack introspection.

is the exact opposite of what I said. In a world where artists are not forced to participate in the social status rat race, they can pursue their arts however they want and it will mostly not include AI. AI grifters won't exist because there's no grift to be done, as artists are not pressured into charging money for their works nobody will care about churning out art, and low-effort generative AI will be shoved aside as easily as we shove other low-effort artistic adventures aside.

I think you're trying to argue with me as if I'm pro-AI and have made the usual pro-AI arguments when I am not and have not. AI in all of its iterations are to me what algorithms of the bygone era are: tools. You can use a hammer to crudely slam nails into a 2x4 but you're not an artist until you build something more than the sum of its parts, whatever tools you use. I don't use AI. I don't pay for any AI services. I've followed the development of LLMs, stable diffusion, and adjacent technology. I have experimented with it and found it to not be useful in my usual workflow and I don't see what else I could do with it that hasn't been done a million times over. I don't hate the hammer because it's not immediately useful to me, I just don't use it and won't be upset if someone else does. If someone else makes something beautiful with the hammer then I will appreciate it as I do art made with any other tools.

The rest of your essay is more like a generic rant aimed at nobody in particular so I won't dissect it. The above point applies.