Artists reach into. Artists reach forward. Artists dream and wish and hope. AI can do none of these things–nor do we, in any real way, want it to.
But understand this: It is absolutely intentional that AI is being shoved into everything, and that it is replacing artists.
Because oppressive structures cannot survive artists. Artists can not only show the truth, they can hope for a better truth, and it is up to the artists to do that.
Toni Morrison wrote eloquently about that a generation ago.
"…And since not history, not anthropology, not social sciences seem capable in a strong and consistent way to grapple with that problem, it may very well be left to the artists to do it. For art focuses on the single grain of rice, the tree-shaped scar, and the names of people, not only the
number that arrived…"
But if you don't want the truth shown, if you don't want the memory of an individual's pain, if you don't want hope, you need something other than an artist.
AI is not only a way to make money, it is a way to fundamentally encode the past as a sterile, disconnected, and automated truth that some people are trying desperately to hold on to.
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