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April 23rd, 2023

bildoperationen In my view, however, that’s a false alternative. Don't get me wrong: as far as we know, masses of original artwork have been used to train these models, without the consent of their creators, and that's a major scandal. People are rightly upset about this
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bildoperationen Thus, while AI does not challenge our notion of art, it does challenge our notion of creativity. And in fact, most debates about AI and art are in fact not about the question of art at all, but about whether AI images are original »works« or mere »copies«
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Wort des Tages: reugierig

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bildoperationen Unless recontextualized as part of an artistic practice, AI images simply don't belong to the realm of art, but to the much larger realm of images. And there were images before art – after all, the beginnings of our modern Western notion of art date back only a few centuries
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bildoperationen Art in this sense is not about producing pretty pictures, it's a self-reflexive cultural practice and as such presupposes an intellectual understanding of art that machines simply don't have (and may never have). AI thus in no way challenges such a conceptual notion of art
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parafactual ok so:
- elon forced a bluecheck on dril
- dril keeps changing his display name to evade the bluecheck
- it keeps getting put back

the question is whether elon eventually adds a special rule to dril's account, such that it never loses its check. then dril impersonates exxonmobil

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 11:13 PM, Apr 23rd, 2023 via Twitter for Android)

d_feldman A search for 'site:amazon.com "as an AI language model"' yields some fun results! pic.twitter.com/hOtMyKzHfi

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bildoperationen If you’re looking for an example of terrible art made with AI, go see Refik Anadol‘s current show at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf: huge walls filled with esoteric screen-savers, accompanied by the most refined curatorial bullshit texts
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Ich will nicht sagen, dass ich deutsch bin, aber ich habe die App »Richtig Lüften Pro« gekauft.

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Da denkt man einmal: heute kommt bestimmt keine Post, und dann hat man gleich drei Post

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Wort des Tages: Lubrizient

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Grobaufräumen und Feinaufräumen

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»Ihre demografische Gruppe hat ein erhöhtes Risiko für reaktionäres Geschwurbel. Wir können Sie daher leider nicht stan.«

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“You’d have to ask for a living cow to get it medium rare.”

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