Thank you, I have heard about stoicism, but never fully delved deeper into it, so I'll try to learn more about it now.

 

Are they dead technically speaking though? I'd argue they have consumed what was created by humans, therefore ingesting all the life experiences, feelings, etc. into one big database and then spitting out something averagely converging with the given prompt.

The machine (hopefully not bert kreischer...) is soulless, but its' creations perhaps are not. Maybe I'm looking too much into it.

 

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Why bring Pablo into this?........... makes very little sense inho!

 

His example/advice is better described as simple optimism; stoicism is when Beethoven continues to compose despite being deaf

 

Its all about illusion -thats what music is in its essence, regular consumers can't distinguish between human or machine made - many musicians even can´t

Picasso had a strong focus on innovation. I believe he would have eagerly embraced AI and experimented with it. With the age of 144 years, anything is possible.

 

You deal with it. I mean that sincerely.

If you ever read the PM I sent you months ago you'd know what I'm talking about.

Oh and BTW I'd guess that roughly 20-50% of the people here or on the sister site are depressed.

Roughly 5% of the world population is.

 

The second AI becomes funnier than Elon Musk on Twitter, the elite will bring it to a halt. Elon wouldn't be able to tolerate that.

 

No, they are technically perfect. That's a problem ... and I am convinced that human made art is unique and contains soul. I am convinced, because I can feel it, see it. Ans I cannot explain, what it is, but it's there.

 

I think at this point, I think most people are too obvlivious to realize that technology will eventually lead to our collective doom. They don't realize that the technology they think makes their lives easier will ultimately enslave them. They don't realize that we're being made to depend on it for that exact reason, to get us used to the idea, that technology rules our lives.

 

I think it's down to an increasing general recognition of one's lack of control in the bigger scheme of things, especially in this race-to-the-bottom culture.

To be truly happy, don't think - obey:

...and don't forgot - vote SkyNet!

 

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...hasn't this line of thought been parroted ever since the invention of fire? Or the steam engine? Or nuclear energy?

 

that's an interesting thought.

i'd guess that great deal of the website also have some kind of mental disorder.
autism, ocd, adhd, borderline, etc

 

I'mI just thinking out loud and jotting things down haphazardly on a busy day for me...

I'm not quite sure that is an apt analogy. It was a very, very slow transition and took many, many decades to overtake the want to commission an artist to paint your portrait. In the first place portraiture was a luxury that only people within a certain "class" could afford, that, and people with an eye for rendering in the great majority were working in advertising and illustration because even 100 years afterward from when images in 1839 where first captured cameras were in the vast majority in the hands of professionals until mass hobby photography took hold in 1900 when Kodak released their Brownie which cost $1.

The thing is, photography when done with esthetic in mind is an art form after the medium has been mastered by a person with the aptitude. The work is done solo by the artist. An "eye" for composition was and is a must as well as a keen interest in the reflection of light as a source of inspiration and combine that with something that they wish to expand and express upon the viewer . Think about the perhaps billions of people with cameras now who just point and shoot to capture a memory. They havn't put professional commercial photographers out of work then or up to now because the need for professionals is warrented. Pros always have had nothing to worry about (until perhaps now). Imagine a clothing manufacturing hiring a random someone with an iPhone to create print ads that have no understanding of lighting or color grading, have no idea how to motivate the models and run a shoot, find locations, submit the photographs to the magazine printer in the correct format, have legal representation, etc. AI changes that idea by doing all the creative decisions and all you just have to prompt with not even a shitty photograph and say, OK! I should know, just look at my avatar.

That's all well and good that people have fun with photography, music, painting, stained glass, ceramics or any other creative outlet, that's great. The cream will rise to the top and if they work it just right can become recognized for their commitment to greatness and perhaps make a living or hit it rich. I see it the issue as when capital looking to greater margins for their business begin utilizing things such as AI which is now in it's infancy, combined with terabytes of content released upon the world every day by people who haven't a clue about artistry, and who think that sticking two pieces of something together that they themselves haven't ccreated is a masterpiece and begin crowding out, elbowing and now lots of times eating bandwidth while snatching eyes and ears' that could be focused on something really good instead of pretenders screaming look at me.

 

It is always the same, some special glasses to see the truth nobody wants to see, before was praying to muted gods, now ayahuasca on the rainforest, or a paralell reality in matrix. The hero's path against the dark forces, to salvation of the humanity. And the rest acting like sheeps on Instagram or X.

 

Amazing pal... good reflection!

 

I call it the velvet prison..

 

the truth is often restated, that never makes it untrue. some need to hear the truth on stun daily, for it sink it. while others merely watch in wonder.

The internet wasn't invented so we could chat. it was a means of accumulating digital data as its much easier to parse and exploit in a timely manner over analog data like snail male and land lines.
everyone is used to the internet, shopping, dating, jobs,banking etc.
its a velvet prison, its comfortable, it steals your data and you pay for it, it is literally big brother, funded by DARPA. look it up...

 

I agree - all corporate (anti)social networks be like...



...apparently it's for their own good.

 

so then we have to consider, is AI a Demon inside the machine beckoning the unwary to their doom?

 

AI presents death by mediocrity for Artist, so the machine seeks poetic justice for the act of being human.