The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

[Mark Kohut]

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so much of what writers & poets create is specific to their time & place,
it would be bizarre to imagine an AI that could write in the mode of Welty,
W.B. Yeats, Kafka, D.H. Lawrence, Dickens--regional atmosphere, the
particular emotions evoked by settings, would have no meaning.

On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 8:28 AM Darah Kehnemuyi <darahk1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> An artist can use rapid manipulation of large data sets (AI) as a tool to
> create art.
> Can AI understand, "get"sarcasm, or irony?   AI can tell us what's moral
> or ethical, but it can't be that.
> Where's that edge of difference?
> AI could have written this, but would it have understood ?
> (imo) Art lives in the understanding.
>                                                                D.
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> On Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 07:33:50 AM EDT, Mark Kohut <
> mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> But this ain't even artificially close to Benjamin's.
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> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 6:52 AM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
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> > Interesting. The title refers to Walter Benjamin's famous "The Work of
> > Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", of course. I don't know
> > whether this is common knowldedge.
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> > Am 26.10.2023 um 11:41 schrieb jody2.718 via Pynchon-l:
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