I just think they’ve got cause and effect backwards. The meaning in art comes from life, not the other way around. Life creates art, that’s why art has meaning. IDK, the idea that anything could render life “meaningless” seems very bleak to me, and I feel like that goes together with the idea that it’s even possible to eliminate art.
I agree with what you’re saying, but it demonstrates how art is actually unkillable. It’s just a natural part of life.
In the hellworld that we live in a lot of us latch onto art to give life meaning. While you may be technically correct, I don’t think it’s a hill worth dying on.
If art is what gives meaning to people’s lives then who are we to judge.
That’s fair, I’m not looking to judge. I just think it leads to really bleak outlooks. This person appears to believe that art can be snuffed out and that the meaning in life can be eliminated.
While I agree with you that art will be there for as long as humans exist (since it’s something a lot of us like to do), access to other’s art might be severely diminished, especially in atomized societies.
Let’s be real, for a lot of people, internet is the source for most of their art enjoyment. As more and more of the internet is filled with soulless AI slop, it might be more and more difficult to find real art here.
I also don’t anticipate that AI will fully replace art on the internet - if you look hard enough, you will always be able to find niche communities of people doing their thing. E.g. I am quite fond of art communities here on lemmy, which seem to be mostly AI-free for now (since there’s no monetary incentive to posting here).
But I can see how someone who loves art and finds all their life’s meaning in it can be concerned with all the slop filling up mainstream artsy social media like instagram/pinterest/music streaming/etc.
I also think it’s possible art came before life, but an unconstrained form of art would ultimately be unable to express itself, it would decide to scatter itself into uncountable little pieces. A lot of those pieces despise their flaws, they now possess, wishing to return to a perfect world, not realizing they’re heading towards cataclysm.
So in a sense what I am also saying is you need both to work in tandem, towards a path of liberation, but I have no clue what happens at the end of this road.
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I just think they’ve got cause and effect backwards. The meaning in art comes from life, not the other way around. Life creates art, that’s why art has meaning. IDK, the idea that anything could render life “meaningless” seems very bleak to me, and I feel like that goes together with the idea that it’s even possible to eliminate art.
I agree with what you’re saying, but it demonstrates how art is actually unkillable. It’s just a natural part of life.
In the hellworld that we live in a lot of us latch onto art to give life meaning. While you may be technically correct, I don’t think it’s a hill worth dying on.
If art is what gives meaning to people’s lives then who are we to judge.
That’s fair, I’m not looking to judge. I just think it leads to really bleak outlooks. This person appears to believe that art can be snuffed out and that the meaning in life can be eliminated.
I mean, if their finding meaning in life is art, then they’re justified in hating AI for that exact reason.
What are we supposed to say, “just find meaning in life somewhere else lol!” ??
While I agree with you that art will be there for as long as humans exist (since it’s something a lot of us like to do), access to other’s art might be severely diminished, especially in atomized societies.
Let’s be real, for a lot of people, internet is the source for most of their art enjoyment. As more and more of the internet is filled with soulless AI slop, it might be more and more difficult to find real art here.
I also don’t anticipate that AI will fully replace art on the internet - if you look hard enough, you will always be able to find niche communities of people doing their thing. E.g. I am quite fond of art communities here on lemmy, which seem to be mostly AI-free for now (since there’s no monetary incentive to posting here).
But I can see how someone who loves art and finds all their life’s meaning in it can be concerned with all the slop filling up mainstream artsy social media like instagram/pinterest/music streaming/etc.
I like the hopeful interpretation.
I also think it’s possible art came before life, but an unconstrained form of art would ultimately be unable to express itself, it would decide to scatter itself into uncountable little pieces. A lot of those pieces despise their flaws, they now possess, wishing to return to a perfect world, not realizing they’re heading towards cataclysm.
So in a sense what I am also saying is you need both to work in tandem, towards a path of liberation, but I have no clue what happens at the end of this road.