Episode 367 - Artistic Automation

This long delayed episode is finally live, this time Tab and Chaco are talking about,

• The Death of Human Content

• Art as a Process

As AI slowly takes over our lives, but before the robots rise up to wipe us all out, the first thing they are doing is just filling our feeds with trash. It's really our own faults though isn't it? I mean we've spent years doom scrolling through vapid nothingness of clickbait content across all social media, the well is starting to run dry so here's AI to add more trash for you to doom scroll through. At this point the robots won't even have to wipe us out, they'll just wait us out as we turn into the fatasses from Wally, and then they'll turn off the food tubes.

Piggy backing on that is the myth that art is something that can be automated. Sure there's a step by step process to completing a project, but true art isn't a paint by numbers task that can just be done. You need a spark of humanity to be able to create, without it you're no different than an AI, taking input and extrapolating out something kind of average and uninteresting.

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