”That picture you painted doesn’t look like the bay of Naples even though it’s called ‘The Bay of Naples’, bro!” says an AI fundamentalist.”
Many AI arguments I’m seeing appear to conflate Creativity with Self-Expression.
Sure, get AI to plagiarise a bunch of other concepts for your marketing, PR and advertising copy – all using the same predicate: attract more money – and call it creativity.
“That picture you painted doesn’t look like the bay of Naples even though it’s called ‘The Bay of Naples’, bro!” says an AI zealot.“You got the prompt wrong. Ask your LLM to make a painting in the style of Cezanne!”, they continue.
“F*ck off”, says Cy Twombly.
“That book you wrote called ‘The Poor Mouth’ will never sell, bro. You got the prompt wrong. Ask Claude to rewrite it in the style of Andy McNab! Then get your LLM to spellcheck and grammar check it, dude.”
“Gamhna gan dáir ort!”, says Myles na gCopaleen.
“That music you wrote sounds awful… blah blah… it’ll never chart blah blah blah”
“Get to f*ck” drawls Thelonious Monk.
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“That poem you wrote called ‘Gadji Beri Bimba’ is blah blah blah ask your LLM to write in the style of Rod McKuen so more people can understand it!”
”That’s not the point, you dolt”, replies Hugo Ball.
Nothing but your own brain, mind, experiences, emotions, psychology can “help” with your self-expression.
LLM’s do not, cannot help people who think they can’t write, paint, compose and so on, to express their ideas. It helps them continue to think that they can’t write, paint… you get the idea. Or maybe you don’t.
