I mean… I suppose that’s fair. I have not messed a ton with AI image generation, I’ve just tinkered a bit here and there, but I’ve seen some interesting stuff. The thing is though, and I realize we’re getting a bit into the weeds here, but I don’t think AI art is art because it lacks intentionality. Art, whether visual or otherwise, is fundamentally about communication. It’s about trying to evoke something in the viewer and making some kind of connection with them on the emotional level. AI isn’t trying to convey or evoke anything, so I don’t believe that it’s art, but I’m not saying there are no good arguments to the contrary or anything.
Honestly while crypto might’ve started out as a noble idea it was not a great solution to the problem it presented, and the technology has since been a solution in search of a problem. Meanwhile the crypto itself pretty quickly fell to rampant speculation and has effectively turned into a giant pump-and-dump. People aren’t paying other people to mine for them, what they’re doing is buying huge power- and water-hungry data centers to mine crypto for them. I live in Texas and we have several big ones here (in a mostly dry hot state with frequent power and water shortages in the summers, so that was a brilliant decision, lol, but I guess power is cheap here), so we’re long past the days where an individual could accomplish much of anything in that arena.
Someone posted a reply about AI Horde which I’ve been looking into, it’s pretty interesting. Also I’m looking at maybe trying to self-host something like ChatGPT (I’ve been working on a writing project and it’s been invaluable to help me brainstorm, work out structure, etc, so I don’t want to lose access when it gets enshittified) but I’m still very much at the ‘seeing what my options are’ stage.
I mean… I suppose that’s fair. I have not messed a ton with AI image generation, I’ve just tinkered a bit here and there, but I’ve seen some interesting stuff. The thing is though, and I realize we’re getting a bit into the weeds here, but I don’t think AI art is art because it lacks intentionality. Art, whether visual or otherwise, is fundamentally about communication. It’s about trying to evoke something in the viewer and making some kind of connection with them on the emotional level. AI isn’t trying to convey or evoke anything, so I don’t believe that it’s art, but I’m not saying there are no good arguments to the contrary or anything.
Honestly while crypto might’ve started out as a noble idea it was not a great solution to the problem it presented, and the technology has since been a solution in search of a problem. Meanwhile the crypto itself pretty quickly fell to rampant speculation and has effectively turned into a giant pump-and-dump. People aren’t paying other people to mine for them, what they’re doing is buying huge power- and water-hungry data centers to mine crypto for them. I live in Texas and we have several big ones here (in a mostly dry hot state with frequent power and water shortages in the summers, so that was a brilliant decision, lol, but I guess power is cheap here), so we’re long past the days where an individual could accomplish much of anything in that arena.
Someone posted a reply about AI Horde which I’ve been looking into, it’s pretty interesting. Also I’m looking at maybe trying to self-host something like ChatGPT (I’ve been working on a writing project and it’s been invaluable to help me brainstorm, work out structure, etc, so I don’t want to lose access when it gets enshittified) but I’m still very much at the ‘seeing what my options are’ stage.