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Ai art can be, but is not always art. At least for now

Even if we define art in the narrow definition of “human ideas and imagination expressed visually,” almost any good ai art requires tons of revisions and heavy modification from a human.

I was a serious photographer for many years and I see many parallels between the editing process there and the editing process with ai prompts. You’re taking a raw product and molding it with framing and editing effects to express an idea.

The day ai can spit out what the art community calls indistinguishable from top tier human art at the click of a button is the day this notion might change. Contingent on how we define art anyways.

What is the better form of entertainment?

Anyone else enter psychosis from a seemingly logical conclusion?

I entered into what became a nearly year long extreme psychotic break based off the fact that I felt it was too improbable that I was as fortunate as I had been in life. I couldn't reconcile my career success, my "innate abilities," my fortunate upbringing etc with the actual probability of it happening through chance. Especially factoring in my marked lack of effort to achieve anything that I had achieved. I estimated that it was conservatively 1/50,000+ that I would be in such a privileged position in a truly random world.

I quickly decided that reality had to be some sort of fabrication where at most me and my partner at the time were the only consciousnesses on the planet. This was an easy jump because even before my break I was of the opinion that it was statistically likely that reality was built/simulated etc, but on this particular day it just consumed me entirely and I completely disconnected from the real world from then on out. Literally happened in the span of 2 hours. I broke down and cried like a child and wasn't the same after that. I concluded that the world around us must both be perfect and specifically optimized for 1-2 people only with everyone else being an NPC of sorts. Solipsism come to life.

I suppose the thing that actually sent me over the edge is I thought I had made an important breakthrough in game theory and wrote out the proof. This was delusion, but it then triggered the ultimate conclusion over the next couple of hours.