I didn't like blue curtained thought termination tendencies among Redditors in years past.

I also don't like watching the planet burn down at an increasingly faster rate so pretty much those same Redditors can get hyped over regurgitated data scrapings and maybe even fool themselves into seeing the treat printers themselves as sapient beings.

"death of the artist" only makes sense in-so-far as you want to look at a text how it exists rather than the artist's own interpretation. It's more a thing with books, "death of the author", cause the author might say it means one thing but you can look at the text and question what it's actually saying, infer new meaning etc. Cause artists'/authors' intent may not actually have come through in the text. Like "You intended this but this is what it comes across in the book as".

But I think for the most part, there's no need to dismiss the artist/authorship completely cause it gets away where this thing has come from in the first place.

i dont think u understand what death of the artist is. Also what makes post modern art art is that it was made to be art, the process of creation MAKES it art, the art IS the display, and creation of it regardless of the piece itself thats kinda what the whole fucking movement was about, I despise post modernism but fuck atleast criticize it from a point of understand not from a point of complete ignorance.

I don't understand why you gave the crying wojak the right opinions. It makes for a confusing meme.

I would say yeah, art is about human connection, though also heavily about politics and culture. I'd venture to say that notions of separating art from those heavy hitters, politics and culture (which are arguably not even separate things in the first place, but I digress...), is largely a liberal capitalism thing and as unrealistic as most things about capitalism. Which, incidentally, is part of why it's so weird when people are like, "Stop making art political!!" Like it never wasn't political. It's just a question of how obvious it is to any given person or group.

In my experience around image generation tech, it appears like it's the sharing of cool generations among other people and the resulting human connection that is more attractive in the long-term than the "generate whatever" in private, which can be fun, similar as eating candy can be fun, but can get old fast if you overdo it. There's a lot within that subject to unpack, but I've seen others point out something that appears to be true to an extent, which is that people don't tend to be all that interested in others "AI art" and are more so interested in their own, which makes a kind of sense to me because the end result is usually shlocky flashy fast food "art" that might feel more meaningful to the person who spent hours experimenting with prompts to get to it. This might seem like a contradiction to the idea of sharing in "cool generations," but it seems to me that such sharing is in part about the sharing itself, not entirely about the perceived quality of the art. Similar to how people can go to a movie together and maybe they're critics about it or maybe they aren't, but either way, they have that knowing that they shared the experience of seeing it simultaneously and can talk about what that experience was like.

Death of the artist mfers on their way to interpret art in the most dogshit way possible:

I found this article a really interesting read (52 min), it is a well-written dialectical take which one may find useful if not already read:

Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art? (2023)"

https://redsails.org/artisanal-intelligence/

Original from: https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2023-02-03-Artisanal-Intelligence.html

The same author has also written (which I have yet to read): https://polclarissou.com/boudoir/posts/2022-01-20-To-save-the-arts-we-must-kill-the-artist.html

People want to have it both ways.

There is no amount of posting that will make me like Rothkos work