If he's right the writing on the gallery wall is about to get a lot more obscure....
Fans of cutting edge #contemporaryart will be grinding their teeth & complaining that this unfairly trivialises artists intent & commitments to avant-garde creativity.
@ChrisMayLA6 Pierre Bourdieu has a good article on how fields of activity tend to become parodies of themselves as they become more self-referential; due to the process of participants rising as leaders in the field by accumulating the cultural capital of being an insider. I think that's what's happened to art, with the turn to the conceptual. And yes, any field that becomes self-referential does make it easier to produce content according to a formula, or an algorithm.
This certainly applies to #Anthropology! I can just imagine, once thingns like made up references are smoothed out, noone being able to detect whether an anthropology piece is AI or not, because it’s all built on the same principles of self-referential jargon that AI uses
@pvonhellermannn@ChrisMayLA6 That's a real shame. If academic enquiry means anything it should be as a method to make sure you stay engaged with the wider world-as-it-is rather than becoming a priesthood or imperial bureaucracy.
@Loukas@ChrisMayLA6 of course! And don’t worry, it’s not all like that, just a lot of it. But myself and many others do do engaged anthropology and we have exactly these conversations all the time.
Just wanted to run with the idea of AI being particularly unrecognisable in these self-referential, jargoned fields!
@pvonhellermannn@ChrisMayLA6 I said it a few months ago - but instead of worrying that AI can replace creative work we should be worrying that creative work has become so formalised and inhuman that an AI could replicate it in the first place.
Not sure if you saw this last time I posted it (I have the Tom Gauld original on my wall in my study)... but, to some extent from the same direction as today's post!
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