Art is dead. Long live art.
The idea that art is dead because of artificial intelligence is ludicrous. That somehow technology could prevent human beings from creating? Even if AI could somehow suck in all of the art ever created and make it its own, erase the names and faces of all the humans who contributed, still doesn't mean we'd give up and let it win. The thing that always surprises me is how humans love to fight. How we love to oppose everything, whether it's good, bad, or somewhere in between. There's always someone who is unwilling to concede that, say, taxes are a necessary evil, or that social welfare has some net positive effect on society. These same defiant humans are the ones who refuse to give in to AI. Who call it slop and have nothing to do with it. Some oppose it out of well-reasoned logic; others oppose it just to do so. In the end, AI has its detractors and its proponents, and neither will stop it from having an effect on our world, both good and bad. Even so, AI won't kee...
