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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 06:16:15 JST feld

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   a thought: so-called 'photo editing' is another step towards the complete devaluation of the act of making culture in favour of consuming it.
   
   It seems to me that a big part of what these programs do is continue to push the economic value of creating towards zero, while increasing the value of consuming. It aims to optimize out of existence the process of drawing, painting, stenciling, etc to the point where all creative acts are commodified and consumption is the primary mode of interaction in order to make something. This isn't new, but it certainly expands and intensifies this aspect of neoliberal society to an extreme.
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     emenel (emenel@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Apr-2023 06:16:16 JST emenel

     a thought: so-called 'ai' is another step towards the complete devaluation of the act of making culture in favour of consuming it.

     It seems to me that a big part of what these generative systems do is continue to push the economic value of creating towards zero, while increasing the value of consuming. It aims to optimize out of existence the process of creating writing, images, music, etc to the point where all creative acts are commodified and consumption is the primary mode of interaction in order to make something. This isn't new, but it certainly expands and intensifies this aspect of neoliberal society to an extreme.

     It stems from a worldview that only values the output of creation as a consumable economic object. It intensely devalues the importance of what we learn about ourselves, each other and the world while making things; of what we express about our inner worlds through making things and how we connect with each other through those expressions. Art is amazing because it is a peek into somebody else's thinking, ideas, and values. Making art is amazing because if forces us to confront our values and ideas while trying to make them tangible. Corporate controlled generative algorithms are a shortcut to consumable 'products' without all the trouble of meaning-making or human connection.