Haven’t watched the video yet, but I will later. But I don’t think AI can make us less human. I think it’s more like the structures we have would enable further dehumanization as a result of distancing people from understanding material conditions.
Kinda just a product made under capitalism will in general. Like the camera software developed by people who didn’t account for Asian and Black people.
That’s their primary point, really. It’s about how AI could effectively seem “more human” than humans, basically transferring ableism to vastly more people. We already trust synthetic, ai-generated faces more than real ones sometimes.
Ooof I hadn’t even thought about that. I mean with a lot of human interactions playing out on screen, it’s already setting expectations of what people should be like. Using AI generation to build on an exclusionary body of work makes that even worse.
Yea. This is my primary conceit with anything AI generated, it reproduces the statistical average response of whatever the prompt is. So that means it also reproduces the statistical average attitudes, unless you get lucky and manage to get it to regurgitate Mao or something.
With most art, you can consciously work against even the base reality people assume. With AI art, that “base assumed reality” is now baked in, completely irremovable, unalterable. You can make comments on it, but you cannot actually change the bedrock itself.
Haven’t watched the video yet, but I will later. But I don’t think AI can make us less human. I think it’s more like the structures we have would enable further dehumanization as a result of distancing people from understanding material conditions.
Kinda just a product made under capitalism will in general. Like the camera software developed by people who didn’t account for Asian and Black people.
That’s their primary point, really. It’s about how AI could effectively seem “more human” than humans, basically transferring ableism to vastly more people. We already trust synthetic, ai-generated faces more than real ones sometimes.
Ooof I hadn’t even thought about that. I mean with a lot of human interactions playing out on screen, it’s already setting expectations of what people should be like. Using AI generation to build on an exclusionary body of work makes that even worse.
Yea. This is my primary conceit with anything AI generated, it reproduces the statistical average response of whatever the prompt is. So that means it also reproduces the statistical average attitudes, unless you get lucky and manage to get it to regurgitate Mao or something.
With most art, you can consciously work against even the base reality people assume. With AI art, that “base assumed reality” is now baked in, completely irremovable, unalterable. You can make comments on it, but you cannot actually change the bedrock itself.