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@brentpatterson@mastodon.art Kinda reminds me of Schmargaret Schmitchell, one of the schmo-authors of the Schmocastic Parrots schmaper. Great thread, thanks for sharing!

I also think the comparison to training an AI and human learning, while somewhat clever, ultimately misses the mark. A human studying the old masters (or any other source of inspiration) is making conscious decisions about what to emulate. They're not making a spreadsheet of every element of every artwork they've ever seen and picking out the elements with the strongest statistical correlation with keywords they were given.

@listeninggarden@mastodon.art The 'e' turning into Earth with the comet orbiting it was a not-too-distant second. As glad as I am that we don't use the word "throbber" anymore, I do miss these little indicators.

@mattblaze@federate.social Of course, the extent to which that is actually true varies wildly. In cases where it's warranted, the director is actually providing creative direction (hence the name) beyond just punching in a list of keywords and picking which completed movie they like best.

@mattblaze@federate.social @Manigarm@mastodon.social I'm only mostly comfortable saying that someone who writes his name on a urinal is not thereby making art. I'm ENTIRELY comfortable saying that someone who commissions an artist to make a bunch of pictures is not the one making art, and that this doesn't change if you replace the (actual) artist with a machine. @byterhymer@mastodon.social Didn't the Steve Jobs version of that aphorism famously end, at least by implication, with "but not from me"?

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Oh. Oh my.

@blogdiva@mastodon.social Can the word of 2024 be deshittification? Please?