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- Author: Stanford Hai
- Full Title:: Ge Wang: GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ge-wang-genai-art-least-imaginative-use-ai-imaginable
- Read date:: 2025-02-02
Highlights
the process not only shapes the outcome invariably, but constitutes an unalienable part of what the outcome is. It is the idea that art is to be made, for it is during the making that we realize what we are truly trying to say, far beyond the initial inkling of a concept. It is the observation that process brings its own intrinsic rewards, not despite of but because of the inherent challenges in making things for ourselves. This is all to say, process is not an obstacle to be removed on the path of creative expression. It is the path. (View Highlight)
The key point is using AI to be able to try things more easily: finding the exact thing you want to say will still be difficult (it’s a long exploration without fully knowing where you are going until you arrive).
by making every effort to dismiss and eradicate the process of learning to expressive ourselves, what they are actually creating is a new generation of consumers. While these endeavors might make a few individuals a lot of money in the meantime, it is unlikely to be good in the long-run for culture — or our soul. (View Highlight)
I think this will still exist, but we could use AI to explore more distant stuff that would have required way more effort to explore now.
I would want her to learn to value and even embrace the difficulty, confusion, frustration that come with learning, and that reside inherent in the craft of creatively expressing oneself, whatever form that may take — and for her to come to know the sublime joy hidden in the process…with or without AI. (View Highlight)