Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities

• Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What does it even mean to bruteforce creating art? Trying all the possible prompts to some image model?

  Doesn’t have to be that random, but can be. Here, I wrote: “throw loads of computation power, gazillions of try & error, petabytes of data including human opinions”.

  The approach people take to learning or applying a skill like painting is not bruteforcing, there is actual structure and method to it.

  Ok, but isn’t that rather an argument that it can eventually be mastered by a machine? They excel at applying structure and method, with far more accuracy (or the precise amount of desired randomness) and speed than we can.

  The idea of brute forcing art comes down to philosophical questions. Do we have some immaterial genie in us, which cannot be seen and described by science, which cannot be recreated by engineers? Engeniers, lol. Is art something which depends on who created it, or does it depend on who views it?

  Either way what I meant is that it is thinkable that more computation power and better algorithms bring machines closer to being art creators, although some humans surely will reject that solely based on them being machines. Time will tell.

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