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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 19:21:44 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.

   This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

   • Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Friedrich Delgado ✔️🎀 (taupan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 07:29:32 JST Friedrich Delgado ✔️🎀

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     @cwebber
     This:

     It is, and has always been, “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas,” and to ‘post-liberal’ ‘intellectuals’, that is in fact a good thing – if anything, they believe, the postmodern right needs to become more absurd; it needs to abandon Enlightenment ideals like reason and argumentation altogether. The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’

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     Guillotine Jones, Flâneur (guillotine_jones@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 07:31:05 JST Guillotine Jones, Flâneur

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     @cwebber
     It just clicked for me, Christine, that Ai-generated media is today's equivalent of Nazi art, Soviet statues, North Korean banners, and Communist Chinese billboards from the '60s and '70s.
     They're all in service of brutal power, not the uplift that Art can be.
     #Art #Propaganda #Ai #UncannyValley

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     Indieterminacy (indieterminacy@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 00:46:35 JST Indieterminacy

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     @cwebber While I agree with your point and your concerns it is worth noting that AI generated artwork has been used by freedom orientated activists.

     For example, the wedding scene preceding the film, The People's Joker was an exemplary (albeit crude) approach at satire as a means of appropriating cultural markers. The use of an AI generated Carson was an effective mechanism for setting mood.
     Nethertheless, Vera Drew's speech (future suffering from the film's infamy) makes clear such asymmetries