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AI And The Arts Are At Odds
What we create can, and will, create us too
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers, PhD
Crimes of Creativity against nature
Art is that which moves us.
When a computer or artificial compilation moves us, with poetry, images, prose, or anything else we are still human. We may still be moved.
But, in a real sense, we are deceived. The word humanities itself comes from the very idea of humans moving humans with powerful tugging at passions, disgust, inspiration, outrage, and awe.
That is, on a deep level art can manipulate our limbic systems, and thus, us. An AI brain with subservient robot bodies can just do it much faster and more efficiently without our even knowing it.
In past times paintings of the crucifixion were considered high art because they touched empathy and even drew remorse from we “sinners.”
One could argue that the artwork that evokes is “non-feeling” but we have known for centuries that the artist was grounded in being human.
A machine does not need consciousness to affect millions. In fact, like a nuclear bomb, it is more efficient without the limitations of either…