Ken Lowery: Why should I care enough to read or behold something no one cared enough to actually make?

Why should I care enough to read or behold something no one cared enough to actually make?

like what are we doing here, just coaxing neurons to fire as quickly and cheaply as possible? it's like if Splenda somehow stole from 5,000 working class people per packet used

Most based take on AI possible

Bingo

I have limited time on this Earth, I am not wasting it on non-art.

Same

I just get so exhausted by the idea that i should care about work that is about nothing (and i count stories that are about having a good time/being goofy)

Wowwww you're, like, so edgy and deep. I'll bet you write poetry about, like, blood and stuff, too.

I write horror but I’m bad at poetry actually Might i recommend my marvel work or the work i did with Janelle monae?

You worked with Janelle Monae????? That’s so cool

Memory librarian! I co-wrote Nevermind, the novella, and it was truly one of the greatest blessings of my career

Wow

I think you misread that my friend. Iirc intent was “silly/goofy counts as something”

I'm gonna hit you with those keys if you're not gonna sit there while I jingle them

This was already my attitude toward obvious SEO copy, and I used to write obvious SEO copy.

Are we talking about AI or social media, or both? Or maybe an old rival?

It's amazing how lazy they are with it, too. Here's one from a coloring book *that is currently being sold*.

Wow, a Sleipnir coloring book! ...wait, no, that's just a fucked-up horse.

You should've seen the owl book. Never would've imagined owls having banana bunches/green beans for talons, and yet...

Horse has some funky legs I'll say- Hope someone paid attention before checking out...

My great-aunt bought this one and one featuring owls, both by the same designer, who was her "mentor" in AI-generated imagery. She was wanting to make coloring books, but has since decided against using AI to do so.

Ah, I see. I wish her well on her future efforts!

lazy people have dreams too, y'know

I'm one of them!!

Yes. Yes. These are the words I’ve been trying to find about this but all I’ve been able to summon so far is just anger.

Completely exactly. If there's no artist it's not art.

THIS.

If it was never made then it doesn't exist, silly.

I agree. Bizarre times we live in. But sadly not good-bizarre.

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I think about the spectacle a lot lately. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soc...

The Society of the Spectacle - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

YES

It might be weird or uncanny

Seriously

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