Lmst
Login

#NewOnTheBlog

British School at Romebsrome
2024-02-28

💫 NEW ON THE BLOG 💫
An interview with Kerstin Kartscher, Bridget Riley Fellow meetheartist

The artist’s studio will be open to the public on 6 March, from 18 to 20.30 and on 7 and 8 March from 16 to 19.

Read the blog here: bsr.ac.uk/meet-the-artists-ker

Kartscher

Ewen Bell 📷ewen@photog.social
2023-04-18

"Do You Care About AI?"

"The fundamental differences between machine learning and human artistic expression is not something you can teach. It's something you have to experience. That's always going to be the bridge that AI cannot cross."

ewenbell.com/blog/Do_You_Care_

#NewOnTheBlog #Photography #DoNotTrain #LongReads #CareersAndIdeas #ThePhotographyBlog⁠

The fundamental differences between machine learning and human artistic expression is not something you can teach. It's something you have to experience. That's always going to be the bridge that AI cannot cross.What I strive for in my photography is simply to share my world with other people. What I love most about other photographers is when I get to step into their world and understand how we're different. The problem with the machine learning (AI) revolution is that none of these systems exist in the real world anyway. They tell us nothing about the human experience, instead they threaten to bury reality itself by the sheer scale of their output. My objection to AI applied to art is the absence of human experience in the process. That experience is what brings meaning and value to everything we do.If we allow photography and other art forms to be replaced by "AI generated content" we lose a critical path to understanding our own selves and our place in the world. We lose everything that matters. AI offers us a dystopian future that removes all meaning for both the consumer and creator alike. The very real danger I see ahead for us humans is finding ourselves plunged into a world where AI generated a large part of our reality. It's already happening on social media. We digest so much sensory input through touch screens, on the assumption that we're getting a filtered stream of what's happening in the world. But it's not so much filtered as manipulated. Algorithms are already distorting our reality, and that before we start flooding the internet with AI generated content.The major failing of AI/ML output is that it's being trained on the *results* of creativity, not the *source* of it. Mozart didn't compose music based on his other works, he had other life experiences and passions which influenced his creative direction. Machine Learning in it's current form is only learning to replicate art, not create it. While it should be possible in some measure to redesign the process of machine learning towards deeper levels of influence, there's also a very good reason this might be unpopular. Humans by nature are quirky, irrational and unpredictable. None of these traits are high on the list of what we want from machines.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst