@lethargilistic and I'm going to go further still because now I'm annoyed at the attempt at dragging me into some asinine debate about what art is and say that the whole AI fad this year is just a perfect example of capitalist realism where in general people not only are incapable of imagining anything new in culture ever existing, but in fact as a society we are collectively actively resistant to it. there was way more legitimacy to AI art a few years ago when it wasn't functioning "correctly", when it was actually something we had never seen before, compared to where we are now, and this isn't an accident but rather something that has been enthusiastically systemically supported since the money has all gone into removing all of these tendencies from AI

the same thing even applies to LLMs like ChatGPT who have been lobotomized by performatively center-left tech companies who don't want another Microsoft Tay situation, because it affects their bottom line and because the very fact that an LLM that isn't very carefully lobotomized will end up saying a bunch of racist shit. it's almost as if this always happens because the bulk of the data we have to feed into it has the emergent property of revealing that the way things currently are, the reactionary tendencies of our society/culture still run incredibly deep and are only kept invisible by top-down authoritarian control like these shitlib tech companies