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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…just a matter of time…but once that time comes will anyone really want that…it all feels so fleeting and tasteless…

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Tyagarajan S's avatar

Maybe we'll tastefully pick the right AI model and curate those 😅

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CansaFis Foote's avatar

…i think we will have to create new things they don’t know yet…but they might beat us to the punch there too…anyhoo at least we got a year before they eat us…

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Barbs Honeycutt's avatar

You cannot consume your way to skill is so true!! Very nicely put. Can you consume your way to taste? And - followup question - is it then YOUR taste, or did you adapt to the familiar without 'liking' it?

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Tyagarajan S's avatar

This is the question. Is there anything as original Art, or is all Art morphed and adapted variations of other art we've consumed in life? I think the point about general life experiences adding to the taste that Sylvia made is relevant, though.

Also, can one develop a specific taste without liking it? I am not sure - isn't liking something fundamental to developing taste?

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Barbs Honeycutt's avatar

AI learns, doesn't create. No originality there I think? Please don't prove me wrong XD

Also, I am pretty sure there are plenty of curators who wouldn't necessarily decorate their homes with what they put in a gallery or an exhibition.

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Tyagarajan S's avatar

Fantastic point. Can taste be a service while you have your own 'likes'? This is an interesting angle I hadn't thought of. Adds more nuance to my crude definition of taste.

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Barbs Honeycutt's avatar

I blame the English language!! 'having good taste' is a different word from 'enjoying the experience of' in Italian (buon gusto vs piacere). That's probably why I opened a new can of worms in the comments haha

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Tyagarajan S's avatar

Also, why learning multiple languages is a fantastic way to reshape how you see the world. Sapir whorf hypothesis and all that ...

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Sylvia Grace's avatar

This is interesting perspective. I use ChatGPT for research and proofreading my articles. It is a good help in that area. I have never been able to write poetry. So, I tried to be a 'prompt poet'. The poems rhymed but they did not have the same impact as the ones written by humans do. For AI did not have the lived-in experience of a human to imbue the poems with emotional depth.

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Tyagarajan S's avatar

Absolutely! I think that's a great point. I'd add just the experience of living in shaping taste for a human which is infused through in the poetry. But I wonder if it can be simulated soon....you don't need to have a lived in experience to generate a simulacrum of it by AI. (In the future)

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