A Flop at the Chinese Box Office Shows AI Still Has a Tough Road Ahead in Theaters — "Sanxingdui: Future Past," a fully AI-generated film, made just $181K in its opening weekend on a $1.5M budget (www.indiewire.com)

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[-] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago

I mean, if a computer creates an artistic work that is truly indistinguishable from a human work, then that would imply the AI possesses sentience and is sharing it's individual perspective via said work. And honestly I consider that something to be celebrated, not feared.

LLMs might be able to fool us for a minute or two into believing it is alive, but unless I'm fundamentally misunderstanding the technology they can't actually ever share a perspective and make art because they don't possess a perspective.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Or it just copied human works and made the sources it copied from obscure enough to not be sued, which is the best it can do.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website -3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

But I'm not talking about a copy machines. I'm saying that if a hypothetical synthetic being was able to retell an existing human story using its own voice then that qualifies as an original artistic work. Just as we don't consider Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" to be a "copy" even though the story has been told before. Without an artist you definitionally don't have art.

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Copy machine output doesn't count as original works.

Movies that retell stories openly are adaptations that give credit to the original source. AI slop does not give attriution to what it is copying.

Movies that are inspired by prior works, which is basically everything, but intentionally do a new take are art because they have intent and meaning even if done poorly. AI slop is just regurgitating stuff.

[-] Kirk@startrek.website 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, I agree that a copy machine is not sentient. You can’t just decide that an inanimate object is "art" and then work backwards to say that the non-sentient tools that were used to create the work are the real artist.