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Amen, brother! Art makes us in the making of our art.

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I truly believe that’s why AI generated art feels so lifeless when I look at it. I’m sure I’m not the only one to feel this way, but whenever, I look at AI art there’s something off. Almost like I’m bored with it, which is interesting because people are always telling me “Wow! Look how cool! AI can do such amazing things.” And that’s true, it does some pretty cool stuff. But I can’t shake my boredom whenever I look at it.

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Same feeling here. I've seen things by AI and I wonder what about these pictures required them to be made by a machine and not a real person? The human touch is missing, and so the product communicates absolutely nothing.

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That's interesting - to use the word "boredom". Thank you! I feel something even worse -- a kind of deadness. More powerful than the deadness I feel when I see something like Picasso's drawing of the hand with flowers repeated on wallpaper sold at the Home Depot. The deadness of drowning in the simulacrum...

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