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Well, the bloom is off the rose\u2014for P, at least. We reunited after her classes today, and she was, if not exactly distraught, then something close to it. Disillusioned at the very least. Turns out she got into a heated, two-versus-one debate on the acceptability of using AI for art, and one of the two on the “pro” side was her art class professor. To her credit, she said she stayed calm, and tried to keep the conversation on reasonable grounds, but still, when her peers and even an erstwhile mentor are using a machine to generate art prompts, or to shortcut life-giving, consciousness-expanding parts of the artistic process, she felt something was deeply wrong\u2014and I share her point of view. The creative process is so personal for her, so deeply knit into the fabric of who she is, that outsourcing it to an algorithm amounts to surrendering part of her humanity. And I get it. Are we that wedded to convenience, to the idea of saving ourselves just a little time (especially <\/em>in an arena like art, where time is less critical) and constructive effort that we’d forego part of the very process that defines the product in the first place? Leaving aside the question of the quality of AI-generated art, we create not only for others, but also for ourselves, and I struggle to imagine how skipping part of the journey enriches the experience. It’s like training for a marathon and thinking that riding a few laps on a golf cart is going to make you more fit for the race. No\u2014it’s the struggle, the effort, the push <\/em>that feeds us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of her newfound disillusionment, I’m so proud of her. She has a worldview, a robust mindset about her craft\u2014and she’s not afraid to defend it. That’s going to carry her a long way. She thinks <\/em>about these things, and thinks clearly. I can honestly say that one of the best things about the kids, and P in particular, getting older is the privilege of having these kinds of “debriefs.” It’s a meeting of a fellow mind, and I’m beginning to learn as much from her as I hope she has from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the bloom is off the rose\u2014for P, at least. We reunited after her classes today, and she was, if not exactly distraught, then something close to it. Disillusioned at the very least. Turns out she got into a heated, two-versus-one debate on the acceptability of using AI for art, and one of the two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}