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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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When I make a piece of music, and the way I express the distortion of time I feel through the turning of the time knob on my guitar pedal, when is the art being produced and by what? I'm pretty sure there's some expression that is happening by me because I feel something, and I don't think my guitar pedal is doing any feeling; however, I cannot express myself the same way without the guitar pedal.
The human being is the person piloting the AI. No one is expecting the AI (or any other tool used in self expression, like a paintbrush) to feel anything.
When you run the AI software, it doesn't DO anything until you make it do something.
Are the anti AI people thinking that the works are generated by pressing a big green "GO" button, or that the AI is some kind of deformed , soulless human being?
I think the idea is that the art is the discovery that the pedal and the guitar let you express yourself, and what you express there.
then that happened way before I bought the pedal itself. But if I didn't buy the pedal I couldn't express it the same way.
The anti-ai stuff has no philosophical sense behind it; it's just vibes. But then again, people are just churning out slop. No one fucking wins or makes sense.
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Different art before the pedal. Unless you never learned, and just always knew how to do the thing?
knowing different concepts, and thinking about how they would be when they joined before having the material possession.
That's art baby, and AI doesn't do any of that. It just arrives at the thing.
The argument is there's value in the journey, and it sounds like there has been a fun one for you on that there guitar.
OK, but when someone has looked at enough art to form an idea of the techniques they want to employ but for some reason, lacks the practical capability or chooses to create it through prose through the machine, how is it any different?
Or, collages are art (I assume). The artists gather existing images, choose/curate the correct ones, assemble them, and end up with their artwork. Why is it any different when someone chooses a catalog of LoRAs to create the images they want to? Do they have to dig through a bunch of shitty magazines?