The more I read and learn about people's experience with art and literature, the more I'm impressed with the pervasiveness of a certain unspoken belief: that there is a metaphysical essence that accompanies a work that cannot be be produced by a computer.
It's artistic essentialism, and similar to copyright, evokes a sense of "what color are your bits."[1]
"Furthermore, they will contest, there is no “magic”. As Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, posted on X in 2023, “Everything ‘creative’ is a remix of things that happened in the past, plus epsilon and times the quality of the feedback loop and the number of iterations”"
Wow first time Ive read this. The hubris of Silicon Valley couldnt come crash down any sooner.
bookofjoe•2h ago