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from Common Sense<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There Is No Such Thing as A.I. Art<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

DALL-E compiles, sifts, and analyzes. But it doesn\u2019t dare. It doesn\u2019t take risks. Only humans, our vulnerable species, can. Walter Kirn writes.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Walter Kirn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(\u201cPicasso style dramatic acrylic painting of a confused young man crafting the perfect tinder bio on his phone\u201d made on DALL-E via\u00a0Reddit<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve always had problems envisioning the underworld. Sulfurous flames belching up from gloomy caverns don\u2019t trigger existential terror in me. This may be because I grew up in Minnesota, where, for over half the year, fire is inviting, cozy, not forbidding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even detailed scenes of suffering in hell have always fallen short, for me, of their awful equivalents on Earth: Real war and real famine horrify me more than paintings of the damned devouring their own arms. Literary evocations of hell, which focus on its prisoners\u2019 inner states\u2014I\u2019m thinking here of Virgil\u2019s Aeneid<\/em> and Dante\u2019s Inferno<\/em>\u2014affect me more deeply, but once again the miseries they speak of are also available in life. The only distinctively hellish thing about these torments is that they are said to persist for all eternity. Eternity, which, perhaps you won\u2019t be surprised to learn, I also have trouble imagining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this changed for me the other day when I came across a brief animated video. It struck me, at last, with authentic spiritual dread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video was a creation of DALL-E, a new artificial intelligence app from the wizards at OpenAI, which is said to represent a breakthrough in the production of machine-made art. You type in a verbal description of an image\u2014\u201ca tarantula wearing a green scarf,\u201d say\u2014and out of the digital void arrives a picture which reflects your specifications. If you\u2019d like, you can tinker with the image the way you might customize a frozen pizza: You can tell the A.I. to render the tarantula in the style of a cubist drawing or a vintage photograph or a Soviet propaganda poster. (How all this works at a computing level I\u2019ll explain in a moment, or I\u2019ll try.) But when I saw the 30-second video, all I knew was foreboding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Common Sense There Is No Such Thing as A.I. Art DALL-E compiles, sifts, and analyzes. But it doesn\u2019t dare. It doesn\u2019t take risks. Only humans, our vulnerable species, can. Walter Kirn writes. by Walter Kirn I\u2019ve always had problems envisioning the underworld. Sulfurous flames belching up from gloomy caverns don\u2019t trigger existential terror in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}