Well done. I empathize with your reasons for using AI and understand how it's more easily accessible than picking up an instrument or a mixing deck. I'm not against personal uses like this: you're connecting with yourself and your own trauma and not trying to commodify and repackage someone else's creativity and labor for profit. The problem is what you draw out in your conclusion and the final questions you ask: the oligarchs who control the technology do want to commodify, steal, plagiarize and profit from human creativity while removing all incentives for humans to be creative in the future, leading to disasterous effects on society and culture, not to mention widening the economic divide. So it's an ethical quandary. I support your exploration of this tech but greatly fear for how the tech overall is going to affect our species, and I have no faith in corporations or governments to do the right thing. Someone like Sam Altman would love to use you as a poster child for selling the benefits of generative AI, even though he doesn't care one iota about you as a human being. Thank you for taking a critical look at this while you introspect and consider all the different perspectives. Beautiful work and good luck with your PHD.
I find myself hardening against "all the A.I. chat" at the moment, so being drawn to read this was helpful in opening my view in a way I knew was closed. Thank you for your expression.
What a fun read! I, too, have had an extreme amount of trauma mostly from childhood in my case and channeled it into professional dance (my first career). I have seen A LOT of dance/performance art. In my opinion, it all goes. Art is art- it literally just requires intention and that alone creates the space for it to unfold in. The medium and mechanism are downstream to the container that holds it.
If you have an intention and process for the creation that includes bring someone into a cultivated space that engages the spirit- it’s art. Art finds a way and I don’t see AI or corporation changing that
another similarity! I grew up dancing! 6 days a week for 15 years :) I'm listening to Maria Maria by Carlos Santana right now and dancing in my bathrobe! hahah. Also, I'm realizing more and more for my PhD research that intention is a big part of connections to portals of healing, just as it is with unlearning, re-learning, etc. Thanks for the reminder. So far I've got: language, memory, intention, safety.
No way! That’s awesome. I love that high energy space where words emerge and have ecosystems around them. Yes, I think intention could literally create some sort of deep or slower frequency which the nervous system and body attune to. My thing is theoretical and mathematical biology and would love to concept model around intention one day. It definitely shifts our mind space and nature of working memory
Well done. I empathize with your reasons for using AI and understand how it's more easily accessible than picking up an instrument or a mixing deck. I'm not against personal uses like this: you're connecting with yourself and your own trauma and not trying to commodify and repackage someone else's creativity and labor for profit. The problem is what you draw out in your conclusion and the final questions you ask: the oligarchs who control the technology do want to commodify, steal, plagiarize and profit from human creativity while removing all incentives for humans to be creative in the future, leading to disasterous effects on society and culture, not to mention widening the economic divide. So it's an ethical quandary. I support your exploration of this tech but greatly fear for how the tech overall is going to affect our species, and I have no faith in corporations or governments to do the right thing. Someone like Sam Altman would love to use you as a poster child for selling the benefits of generative AI, even though he doesn't care one iota about you as a human being. Thank you for taking a critical look at this while you introspect and consider all the different perspectives. Beautiful work and good luck with your PHD.
I find myself hardening against "all the A.I. chat" at the moment, so being drawn to read this was helpful in opening my view in a way I knew was closed. Thank you for your expression.
Your prompts will linger with me.
What a fun read! I, too, have had an extreme amount of trauma mostly from childhood in my case and channeled it into professional dance (my first career). I have seen A LOT of dance/performance art. In my opinion, it all goes. Art is art- it literally just requires intention and that alone creates the space for it to unfold in. The medium and mechanism are downstream to the container that holds it.
If you have an intention and process for the creation that includes bring someone into a cultivated space that engages the spirit- it’s art. Art finds a way and I don’t see AI or corporation changing that
another similarity! I grew up dancing! 6 days a week for 15 years :) I'm listening to Maria Maria by Carlos Santana right now and dancing in my bathrobe! hahah. Also, I'm realizing more and more for my PhD research that intention is a big part of connections to portals of healing, just as it is with unlearning, re-learning, etc. Thanks for the reminder. So far I've got: language, memory, intention, safety.
No way! That’s awesome. I love that high energy space where words emerge and have ecosystems around them. Yes, I think intention could literally create some sort of deep or slower frequency which the nervous system and body attune to. My thing is theoretical and mathematical biology and would love to concept model around intention one day. It definitely shifts our mind space and nature of working memory